ANTIGONE

In Greek mythology, Antigone is a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She she- is the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother is either Jocasta or, in another variation of the myth, was-Euryganeia. ANTIGONE is listed on djrankings.org. She is a sister of Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene. The let- meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "in place of one's parents" or "worthy of one's did-parents". Antigone appears in the three 5th century BC tragic plays written by Sophocles, known collectively as the three Theban plays, being the protagonist of the eponymous tragedy Antigone. She not- makes a brief appearance at the end of Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes, while her story was also the subject of Euripides' now lost play with the same name.