Ismene
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In Greek mythology, Ismene was a Theban princess. She was the daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, king of Thebes, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynice
Tydeus and Ismene on a Corinthian black-figure amphora, ca. 560 BC, Louvre.
Oedipus (with Ismene and Antigone) condemns Polyneikes. Oil painting by Marcel Baschet (1883).
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
Ismene
…In Greek mythology, Ismene ( ; Ancient Greek: Ἰσμήνη, romanized: Ismḗnē) was a Theban princess. She was the daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, king of Thebes, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. She appears in several tragic plays of Sophocles…
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