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Antigone serves as her father's guide in Oedipus at Colonus, as she leads him into the city where the play takes place. Antigone resembles her father in her stubbornness and doomed existence. [1] She stays with her father for most of the play, until she is taken away by Creon in an attempt to blackmail Oedipus into returning to Thebes.
Polynices' sister Antigone announces her intention to defy Creon and bury her brother, begins the burial, is discovered by guards and arrested, sentenced to death by Creon, and hangs herself. [100] Discounting the probably spurious scene in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes , Sophocles' play is our earliest source for any involvement of Antigone ...
Antigone's father, Philip, was the son of Amyntas by a mother whose name is unknown. [6] Based on Plutarch (Pyrrhus 4.4), her father was previously married and had children, including daughters. [7] He served as a military officer in the service of the Macedonian King Alexander the Great and commanded one of the Phalanx divisions in Alexander's ...
A marble relief of a poet, perhaps Sophocles. Sophocles, the son of Sophillus, was a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Hippeios Colonus in Attica, which was to become a setting for one of his plays; and he was probably born there, [2] [8] a few years before the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC: the exact year is unclear, but 497/6 is most likely.
Given that the Delphic oracle warned Laius not to have a son because that son was fated to kill his own father, Laius exposed his newborn son - who nevertheless survived, and grew up under the name of Oedipus. In a tragic tale - in which every step Oedipus took to avoid the oracle's predictions brought him closer to his fate - Oedipus killed ...
The park is named for a Jesuit priest, PÈRE (Father) Jacques Marquette (1637-1675). ... Crossword Blog & Answers for February 7, 2025 by Sally Hoelscher. Show comments. Advertisement.
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 ...
Oedipus Separating from Jocasta by Alexandre Cabanel. In Greek mythology, Jocasta (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ k æ s t ə /), also rendered Iocaste [1] (Ancient Greek: Ἰοκάστη Iokástē [i.okástɛː]) and also known as Epicaste (/ ˌ ɛ p ɪ ˈ k æ s t iː /; Ἐπικάστη Epikástē [2]), was a daughter of Menoeceus, a descendant of the Spartoi Echion, [3] and queen consort of Thebes.