Antigone
Family: Theban · Role: daughter of Oedipus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5
🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Antigone) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Antigone)
Life events
- Antigone secretly buries Polynices, and Creon orders her interred alive after discovering her.(Apollodorus, Library 3.7 · 📍 Thebes)
- Peleus received Antigone in marriage and a third of Phthia.(Apollodorus, Library 3.13 · 📍 Phthia)
- With: Peleus
- “Peleus fled to Phthia to the court of Eurytion, son of Actor, and was purified by him, and he received from him his daughter Antigone and the third part of the country.”
- Antigone killed herself after Astydamia falsely claimed Peleus would marry Sterope.(Apollodorus, Library 3.13)
Apollodorus, Library 3.5
- parent: Oedipus “and begat sons by her, Polynices and Eteocles, and daughters, Ismene and Antigone.”
- parent: Eurygania (Alternative genealogy.) “But some say the children were borne to him by Eurygania, daughter of Hyperphas.”
- parent: Jocasta “and begat sons by her, Polynices and Eteocles, and daughters, Ismene and Antigone.”
- with Oedipus (interaction) “And having come with Antigone to Colonus in Attica , where is the precinct of the Eumenides, he sat down there as a suppliant”
Apollodorus, Library 3.7
- parent: Oedipus “Antigone, one of the daughters of Oedipus, stole the body of Polynices”
- with Creon (Creon caused Antigone to be buried alive.) “having been detected by Creon himself, she was interred alive in the grave”
- with Polynices (interaction) “Antigone, one of the daughters of Oedipus, stole the body of Polynices, and secretly buried it”
Apollodorus, Library 3.13
- parent: Eurytion “he received from him his daughter Antigone”
- married with Peleus “he received from him his daughter Antigone and the third part of the country.”
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