Antigone

Daughter of Oedipus, buries the body of her brother Polynices against the wishes of King Creon.

Genealogy

Eurygania, Jocasta

Oedipus

Eteocles, Ismene, Oedipus, Polynices

Places
  1. Colonus
  2. Thebes
Events
  1. Polynices, Eteocles, Ismene and Antigone are born to Oedipus and Jocasta
  2. Oedipus and Antigone arrive at Colonus
  3. Oedipus is a suppliant at the Precinct of the Eumenides
  4. Antigone steals the body of Polynices and secretly buries him
  5. Creon has Antigone buried alive
  6. Creon discovers Antigone burying Polynices
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.8
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.9
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 7.1
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