Antig'oné

Antig'oné, daughter of Oedipus by his own mother Jocasta, and sister of Eteocles, Polynices, and Ismene. She accompanied her father in his exile to Colonus in Attica, and after his death, returned to Thebes. When her brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, had both fallen in single combat, and Creon had forbidden on pain of death the burial of the latter, Antigone alone dared disobey. She covered her brother's body with earth, and was in consequence shut up in a subterranean cave, where she perished. Her lover, Hæmon, son of Creon, destroyed himself beside her corpse. Antigone, as the ideal of feminine duty and filial devotion, has been immortalised by Sophocles in his noble tragedies, Edipus at Colonus and Antigone. Æschylus's tragedy upon her story is lost, but she figures in his Seven against Thebes, and in the Phænissæ of Euripides.