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Antigone
Daughter of Oedipus in Greek mythology
This article is about the daughter of Oedipus. For other uses, see Antigone (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Antigona.
In Greek mythology, Antigone (ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη, romanized: Antigónē) is a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies.
She is the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother is either Jocasta or, in another variation of the myth, Euryganeia.
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She is a sister of Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene.[1] The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "in place of one's parents" or "worthy of one's parents". Antigone appears in the three 5th century BC tragic plays written by Sophocles, known collectively as the three Theban plays, being the protagonist of the eponymous tragedy Antigone.
She makes a brief appearance at the end of Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes, while her story was also the su