Ismene
mythological figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
sister · daughter · child · maiden · maiden sister · that other
in the texts
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus' daughter, sister of Antigone, who brings news of Theban strife and Delphic prophecy and undertakes the required atonement rite.
But the evils that now beset your ill-fated sons—it is of these that I have come to tell.
Ismene:
Ismene:
Phoenissae
Younger daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, sister of Antigone, Eteocles and Polyneices.
the one her father called Ismene;
Antigone
Antigone's sister, initially unwilling to violate Creon's decree but later wishing to share Antigone's guilt and fate.
Look, here comes Ismene from the palace, shedding the tears of a loving sister.
But my life has long been in Death’s hands so that I might serve the dead.
No, we must remember, first, that ours is a woman’s nature, and accordingly not suited to battles against men;