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Antigone in Front of the Dead Polynices by Nikiforos Lytras, National Gallery, Athens, Greece (1865) In her own namesake play, Antigone attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices. Oedipus's sons, Eteocles and Polynices, had shared rule jointly until they quarreled, and Eteocles expelled his brother. In Sophocles' account ...
Antigone (Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) was a Macedonian noblewoman who lived in the 4th century BC. She was born to Cassander by a mother whose name is unknown. [1] Antigone was the niece of the Regent Antipater. [2] Her father and paternal uncle were the sons of Iolaus and through her father Antigone was a distant collateral relative to the ...
Antigone of Troy (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is a minor figure in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the Trojan king Laomedon and the sister of Priam. [1] The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "worthy of one's parents" or "in place of one's parents".
The Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Although the plays are often called a "trilogy," they were written many years apart. Antigone, the last of the three plays sequentially, was actually first to be written, having been composed in 441 BC, towards the beginning of Sophocles's career. [35]
Antigone at the Barbican was a 2015 filmed-for-TV version of a production at the Barbican directed by Ivo van Hove; the translation was by Anne Carson and the film starred Juliette Binoche as Antigone and Patrick O'Kane as Kreon. Other TV adaptations of Antigone have starred Irene Worth (1949) and Dorothy Tutin (1959), both broadcast by the BBC.
In Greek mythology, Antigona or Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη meaning 'worthy of one's parents' or 'in place of one's parents') was the name of the following figures: Antigone, daughter of Oedipus. Antigone, daughter of Eurytion and first wife of Peleus. [1] Antigone, daughter of Laomedon. [2]
Antigone: Snake-haired woman Hera Antigone boasted of being prettier than Hera, so the goddess gave her snakes for hair. Boat: Stone Apollo After Pompilus saved Ocyrhoe from Apollo by transporting her to a nearby island, Apollo appeared again, stole Ocyrhoe, turned Pompilus into fish and his boat into stone. Charybdis: A sea monster Zeus
Antigone bore Pyrrhus two children: a daughter called Olympias and a son called Ptolemy. [13] Antigone possibly died in childbirth, as she seems to have died the same year as her son was born. [14] As a posthumous honour to his first wife, Pyrrhus founded a colony called Antigonia, which he named after her.