Antigone, a daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes, by his mother Jocasta. She buried by night her brother Polynices, against the positive orders of Creon, who, when he heard of it, ordered her to be buried alive. She however killed herself before the sentence was executed; and Haemon, the king's son, who was passionately fond of her, and had not been able to obtain her pardon, killed himself on her grave. The death of Antigone is the subject of one of the tatgedies of Sophocles. The Athenians were so pleased with it at the first reprentation, that they presented the author with the government of Samos. This tragedy was represented 32 times at Athens without interruption.
Biblioteca Classica or A Classical Dictionary, by J. Lemprière. DD (1797), citado em Antigones, de George Steiner.
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