Antigone

Family: Theban · Role: dragged Polynices’ corpse to the funeral pile · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 25

Life events

• Antigone dragged Polynices’ corpse onto Eteocles’ blazing funeral pile.(Book 9 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Antigone’s Dragging-ground)
  • With: Polynices Eteocles
  • “as she could not easily lift up with all her zeal the corpse of Polynices, her next idea was to drag it along, which she did till she was able to throw it on the funeral pile of Eteocles which was blazing.”

Book 9 · Chapter 25

• with Polynices (Antigone dragged Polynices' corpse.) “And the whole place is called Antigone’s Dragging-ground: for as she could not easily lift up with all her zeal the corpse of Polynices, her next idea was to drag it along, which she did till she was able to throw it on the funeral pile of Eteocles which was blazing.”
• with Eteocles (Antigone placed Polynices' corpse on Eteocles' funeral pile.) “And the whole place is called Antigone’s Dragging-ground: for as she could not easily lift up with all her zeal the corpse of Polynices, her next idea was to drag it along, which she did till she was able to throw it on the funeral pile of Eteocles which was blazing.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.