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Antigone   /ætˈɪgəni/   Listen
Antigone

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death.





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... had been exposed, so that he had fulfilled his fate, and killed his own father. To save Thebes, he left the country, with his eyes put out by way of expiation, and wandered about, only attended by his faithful daughter Antigone, till he came to Athens, where, like Orestes, he was sheltered, and allowed to expiate his crime. After his death, Antigone came back to Thebes, where her two brothers Eteocles and Polynices had agreed to reign each a year by turns; but when Eteocles' year was over he would not give up to his brother, ...
— Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History • Charlotte M. Yonge


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