Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities of ...

, Antigone ( ;

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

: Ἀντιγόνη) is the daughter of

Oedipus Oedipus (, ; grc-gre, Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus accidentally fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby ...

and either his mother

Jocasta In Greek mythology, Jocasta (), also rendered Iocaste ( grc, Ἰοκάστη ) and also known as Epicaste (; ), was a daughter of Menoeceus, a descendant of the Spartoi Echion, and queen consort of Thebes. She was the wife of first Laiu ...

or, in another variation of the myth, Euryganeia. She is a sister of

Polynices In Greek mythology, Polynices (also Polyneices) (; grc, Πολυνείκης, Polyneíkes, lit= manifold strife' or 'much strife) was the son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia and the older brother of Eteocles (according to Sophocl ...

Eteocles In Greek mythology, Eteocles (; ) was a king of Thebes, the son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia. Oedipus killed his father Laius and married his mother without knowing his relationship to either. When the relationship was reveal ...

, and

Ismene In Greek mythology, Ismene (; grc, Ἰσμήνη, ''Ismēnē'') is the daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. She appears in several plays of Sophocles: at th ...

.Roman, L., & Roman, M. (2010). The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent

Antigonus Antigonus or Antigonos ( grc, Ἀντίγονος), a Greek name meaning "comparable to his father" or "worthy of his father", may refer to: Rulers * Three Macedonian kings of the Antigonid dynasty that succeeded Alexander the Great: ** Antigon ...

, "worthy of one's parents" or "in place of one's parents". She appears in the three 5th century BC tragic plays written by

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or c ...

, known as the three Theban plays, and she is the main protagonist of the eponymous tragedy ''Antigone''.

In Sophocles

The story of Antigone was addressed by the fifth-century BC Greek playwright

in his Theban plays:

''Oedipus Rex''

Antigone and her sister

are seen at the end of ''

Oedipus Rex ''Oedipus Rex'', also known by its Greek title, ''Oedipus Tyrannus'' ( grc, Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, ), or ''Oedipus the King'', is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Gr ...

'' as Oedipus laments the "shame" and "sorrow" he is leaving his daughters to. He then begs Creon to watch over them, but in his grief reaches to take them with him as he is led away. Creon prevents him from taking the girls out of the city with him. Neither of them is named in the play.

''Oedipus at Colonus''

Antigone serves as her father's guide in '' Oedipus at Colonus'', as she leads him into the city where the play takes place. Antigone resembles her father in her stubbornness and doomed existence. She stays with her father for the majority of the play, until she is taken away by Creon in an attempt to blackmail Oedipus into returning to Thebes. However,

Theseus Theseus (, ; grc-gre, Θησεύς ) was the mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. The myths surrounding Theseus his journeys, exploits, and friends have provided material for fiction throughout the ages. Theseus is sometimes describ ...

defends Oedipus and rescues both Antigone and her sister who was also taken prisoner. At the end of the play, both Antigone and her sister mourn the death of their father. Theseus offers them the comfort of knowing that Oedipus has received a proper burial, but by his wishes, they cannot go to the site. Antigone then decides to return to Thebes.

''Antigone''

In her own namesake play, Antigone attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother

. Oedipus's sons,

and Polynices, had shared rule jointly until they quarreled, and Eteocles expelled his brother. In Sophocles' account, the two brothers agreed to alternate rule each year, but Eteocles decided not to share power with his brother after his tenure expired. Polynices left the kingdom, gathered an army and attacked the city of Thebes in the war of the

Seven against Thebes The Seven against Thebes were seven champions in Greek mythology who made war on Thebes. They were chosen by Adrastus, the king of Argos, to be the captains of an Argive army whose purpose was to restore Oedipus' son Polynices to the Theban ...

. Both brothers were killed in the battle. King Creon, who has ascended to the throne of Thebes after the death of the brothers, decrees that Polynices is not to be buried or even mourned, on pain of death by stoning. Antigone, Polynices' sister, defies the king's order and is caught. Antigone is brought before Creon, and admits that she knew of Creon's law forbidding mourning for Polynices but chose to break it, claiming the superiority of divine over human law, and she defies Creon's cruelty with courage, passion, and determination. Creon orders Antigone buried alive in a tomb. Although Creon has a change of heart and tries to release Antigone, he finds she has hanged herself. Creon's son

Haemon According to Sophocles' play '' Antigone'', Haemon {{IPAc-en, ˈ, h, iː, m, ɒ, n or Haimon (Ancient Greek: Αἵμων, ''Haimon'' "bloody"; ''gen''.: Αἵμωνος) was the mythological son of Creon and Eurydice, and thus brother of Menoec ...

, who was in love with Antigone, commits suicide with a knife, and his mother Queen

Eurydice Eurydice (; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη 'wide justice') was a character in Greek mythology and the Auloniad wife of Orpheus, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music. Etymology Several meanings for the name ...

also kills herself in despair over her son's death. She had been forced to weave throughout the entire story, and her death alludes to

The Fates The Fates are a common motif in European polytheism, most frequently represented as a trio of goddesses. The Fates shape the destiny of each human, often expressed in textile metaphors such as spinning fibers into yarn, or weaving threads on a ...

. By her death Antigone ends up destroying the household of her adversary, Creon.

Other representations

In the oldest version of the story, the burial of Polynices takes place during Oedipus' reign in Thebes, before Oedipus marries his mother, Jocasta. However, in other versions such as

' tragedies '' Oedipus at Colonus'' and '' Antigone'', it occurs in the years after the banishment and death of Oedipus and Antigone's struggles against Creon.

''Seven Against Thebes''

Antigone appears briefly in Aeschylus' ''

Seven Against Thebes The Seven against Thebes were seven champions in Greek mythology who made war on Thebes. They were chosen by Adrastus, the king of Argos, to be the captains of an Argive army whose purpose was to restore Oedipus' son Polynices to the Theban ...

.''

Euripides' lost story

The dramatist

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars ...

also wrote a play called '' Antigone'', which is lost, but some of the text was preserved by later writers and in passages in his '' Phoenissae''. In Euripides, the calamity is averted by the intercession of

Dionysus In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; grc, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity, and theatre. The Romans ...

and is followed by the marriage of Antigone and Hæmon. Antigone also plays a role in the Phoenissae.

Appearance elsewhere

Different elements of the legend appear in other places. A description of an ancient painting by

Philostratus Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (; grc-gre, Φιλόστρατος ; c. 170 – 247/250 AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He was born prob ...

('' Imagines'' ii. 29) refers to Antigone placing the body of Polynices on the funeral pyre, and this is also depicted on a

sarcophagus A sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried. The word ''sarcophagus'' comes from the Gre ...

in the Villa Doria Pamphili in

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. And in Hyginus' version of the legend, founded apparently on a tragedy by some follower of Euripides, Antigone, on being handed over by Creon to her lover Hæmon to be slain, is secretly carried off by him and concealed in a shepherd's hut, where she bears him a son, Maeon. When the boy grows up, he attends some funeral games at Thebes, and is recognized by the mark of a dragon on his body. This leads to the discovery that Antigone is still alive. The demi-god

Heracles Heracles ( ; grc-gre, Ἡρακλῆς, , glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adopt ...

then intercedes and pleads with Creon to forgive Hæmon, but in vain. Hæmon then kills Antigone and himself. The intercession by Heracles is also represented on a painted vase (circa 380–300 BC).

Genealogy

Gallery

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(497 BC406 BC), the most famous adaptation * '' Antigone'', a play by

(c. 480406 BC) which is now lost except for some fragments * '' Antigona'', opera by Tommaso Traetta, libretto by Marco Coltellini (1772) * '' Antigona'', opera by Josef Mysliveček, libretto by Gaetano Roccaforte (1774) * '' Antigone'' (1841), settings of the choruses by Felix Mendelssohn as incidental music for a performance of

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's translation of ''Sophocles'' * ''Antigone'', play by

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(1889–1963) * ''Antigone'', opera by

Arthur Honegger Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. A member of Les Six, his best known work is probably '' Antigone'', composed between 1924 and 1927 ...

(1892–1955), libretto by

(1889–1963) * '' Antigonae'' (Salzburg 1949), opera by

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(1895–1982) * '' Antigone'' (1944), play by Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) performed during the Nazi occupation of Paris * " Antigone-Legend", for soprano and piano (text by

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), by Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021) and presented as a play in two slightly different versions in 1948 and 1951 * ''Αντιγόνη'' ('' Antigone''), ballet by

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(b. 1925), 1959 * ''Αντιγόνη'' ('' Antigone''), opera by

(b. 1925), 1995–96 * '' Antigone'' (1990/1991), opera by Ton de Leeuw (b. 1926) * ''Antígona Furiosa'' (Furious Antigone), play by Griselda Gambaro (b. 1928) * ''

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'', play by

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(b. 1930) * ''

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'', play by

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(b. 1932) * ''La Pasión Según Antígona Pérez'' ((The) Passion according to Antigone Pérez), adaptation by Luis Rafael Sánchez (b. 1936), updated to 20th-century Latin America * ''Antígona'', play by Salvador Espriu (1939) * "Antigone", a short story by Sheila Watson (1959) * ''Tegonni, An African Antigone'' by Femi Osofisan (b. 1946) * ''Antigone'', an adaptation of Sophocles' play by Peruvian poet José Watanabe (b. 1946) * ''Antigone'', opera by Mark Alburger (b. 1957) * '' Antigone'' (1961), a film directed by Yorgos Javellas, starring Irene Papas. * ''La tumba de Antígona'' (1967), philosophy work in poetry (razón poética) by María Zambrano (1904–1991) * ''Antigone'', comic book by David Hopkins (b. 1977) * ''Antigone'', opera by Vassily Lobanov, libretto by Alexey Parin (1988) * ''Antigone'' by Henry Bauchau * ''Antigone's Red'' (2002), a short play by Chiori Miyagawa * '' The Burial at Thebes'' (2004), by

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, adapted into a 2008 opera with music by Dominique Le Gendre * ''Antigone'', play by

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(1900–1970) * ''Antigona'' (1960), a play by Dominik Smole * ''Antigonai'' (2009), opera based on fragments by Sophocles and Hölderlin for three choirs and a women's trio by Argentine composer

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* ''Antigone's Song'' (2010), a short post-apocalyptic musical western film based loosely on the myth of Antigone by Perpombellar Productions * '' Antigone'' (1948), by

, based on the translation by

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and published under the title ''Antigonemodell 1948''. An English translation of Brecht's version of the play is available * ''Antigone'', play by Antonio D'Alfonso (2004) * ''Antigone'', play by Don Taylor * ''Antigone'', modern adaptation (87 minute film) by Antonio D'Alfonso (2012) * ''Antigonick'', play by Anne Carson (2012) which is a free and poetic adaptation of the Sophocles play. Carson and her colleagues presented a reading of Antigonick in 2012 at the Louisiana gallery in Denmark. * ''Antigonas, linaje de hembras'', play by Argentinean playwright

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* ''Antigone'', play by

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(2016) at Compagnietheater in Amsterdam * ''Antígona Oriental'' (2012) written by

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and directed by

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. * ''Antigone'' (2016), a play by

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which allows for three different endings (2016). * ''Antigona'' (2016), a solo play by Brazilian actress Andrea Beltrão * ''The Children of Jocasta'' (2017), a novel by Natalie Haynes which pays particular attention to Ismene, Antigone's sister. * ''

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'' (2017), a novel by

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which adapts the story to present issues concerning the repatriation of the body of a terrorist. * ''Antigone'' (2017), a film artwork by Tacita Dean * ''Antigone in Molenbeek'' (2017) a play by Stefan Hertmans * ''Antigone Alone'' (2018) a solo play by the actor/writer Michael McEvoy * ''Antigone in Ferguson'' (2018) a play by the group ''Theater of War'' which offers commentary on the 2014

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, presented as a reading of the play by the cast with a gospel choir acting as the chorus. * '' Antigone'' (2019), a film by

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* ''Pale Sister'' (2021) Written by

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. Starring Lisa Dwan, directed by

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. * ''The Riot Act'' (1984) written by Tom Paulin, reimagining the play in the setting of Northern Ireland during the period of

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's government. Produced by

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Theatre Co., Dublin.

Analysis

In the works of

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends ...

, in particular in his discussion of Sittlichkeit in his '' Phenomenology of Spirit'' and his '' Elements of the Philosophy of Right'', Antigone is figured as exposing a tragic rift between the so-called feminine "Divine Law," which Antigone represents, and the "Human Law," represented by Creon. The Catholic philosopher

Jacques Maritain Jacques Maritain (; 18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised Protestant, he was agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive Thomas Aquinas fo ...

considers Antigone as the "heroine of the natural law:" :she was aware of the fact that, in transgressing the human law and being crushed by it, she was obeying a higher commandment—that she was obeying laws that were unwritten, and that had their origin neither today nor yesterday, but which live always and forever, and no one knows where they have come from. The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan writes about the ethical dimension of Antigone in his Seminar VII, ''The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.'' Others who have written on Antigone include theorist

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, in her book ''Antigone's Claim'', as well as philosopher

, in various works, including ''Interrogating the Real'' (Bloomsbury: London, 2005) and ''The Metastases of Enjoyment'' (Verso: London, 1994).

Contemporary productions

A new translation of ''Antigone'' into English by the Canadian poet Anne Carson has been used in a production of the play (March 2015) at the Barbican directed by

Ivo van Hove Ivo van Hove (born 28 October 1958) is a Belgian theatre director known as the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in the Netherlands and for his Off-Broadway avant-garde experimental theatre productions. On Broadway, he has directed rev ...

and featuring Juliette Binoche as Antigone. This production was broadcast as a TV movie on April 26, 2015. The play was transferred to the BAM Harvey Theatre at the

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, running from September 24 to October 4, 2015.''Antigone''
at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

References

External links

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