Ἀντιγόνη


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Antigone is a daughter of the accidentally incestuous marriage between Oedipus and his mother Jocasta. She is the subject of Sophocles's tragedies Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, in which she attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polyneices, even though he was a traitor to Thebes.