Antigone
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In Greek mythology, Antigone was a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She was the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother was either Jocasta or, in
Antigone tied on an Apulian red-figure amphora by the Darius Painter, ca. 350-320 BC, Altes Museum
Oedipus and Antigone by Aleksander Kokular (1825–1828), National Museum, Warsaw.
Antigone in Front of the Dead Polynices by Nikiforos Lytras, National Gallery, Athens, Greece (1865)
Antigone leads the blind Oedipus away on a mural from Delos, 1st century BC.
Oedipus
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Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus unwittingly fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringin
Antigone
…Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη, romanized: Antigónē) was a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She was the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother was either Jocasta or, in another variation of the myth, Euryganeia. She was the sister of Polynices, Eteocles…
Oedipus and Sphinx, pelike, 450–440 BC
Detail of ancient fresco in which Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx. Egyptian Museum, c. 2nd CE
Oedipus slaying the sphinx, on an Attic lekythos, c. 420–400 BC, housed in the British Museum
Oedipus at Colonus