Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Additionally, Uribe emphasizes a question, quote, or line of a poem by placing it in the middle of a blank page, guaranteeing it will catch the attention of the reader. In Antígona González, Uribe also emphasizes certain quotes by placing them before a series of related words. Each word in the series, separated by slashes, isolates an ...
Creon, Antigone's uncle and newly appointed King of Thebes, buries Eteocles, who fought on the Theban side of the war, hailing him as a great hero. He refuses to bury Polyneices, proclaiming that any who attempt to defy his wishes will be made an example of, on the grounds that he was a 'traitor' fighting on the opposing side in the war.
Antigone, Polynices' sister, defies the king's order and is caught. Antigone is brought before Creon, and admits that she knew of Creon's law forbidding mourning for Polynices but chose to break it, claiming the superiority of divine over human law, and she defies Creon's cruelty with courage, passion, and determination.
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 ...
Antigone (Greek: Ἀντιγόνη, born before 317 BC [1] –295 BC) [2] was a Macedonian Greek noblewoman. Through her mother's second marriage she was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and through her marriage to Pyrrhus she was queen of Epirus .
Antigone's sister, Ismene, then declared she had aided Antigone and wanted the same fate. Creon imprisoned Antigone in a sepulchre; meanwhile the gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order. He then went to bury Polynices himself, and release Antigone.
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 ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us