A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Antigone

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ANTIGONE,

Was daughter of Œdipus, king of Thebes, by his sister Jocasta. This incestuous union brought a curse on the innocent Antigone; yet she never failed in her duty to her father, but attended him in his greatest misfortunes. She was slain by the usurper Creon, whose son Hæmon, being in love with her, killed himself upon her tomb. Her death was avenged on Creone by Theseus, and her name has been immortalized in a tragedy by Sophocles. She lived about B. C. 1250.