Antigone (mythology)
{{Short description|Female character in Greek mythology}}
In Greek mythology, Antigona or Antigone ({{IPAc-en|æ|n|ˈ|t|ɪ|ɡ|ə|n|i}} {{respell|ann|TIG|ə|nee}}; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη meaning 'worthy of one's parents' or 'in place of one's parents') was the name of the following figures:
- Antigone, daughter of Oedipus.
- Antigone, daughter of Eurytion and first wife of Peleus.Apollodorus, 3.13.1–3
- Antigone, daughter of Laomedon.Ovid, Metamophoses 6.93
- Antigona, the Pheraean princess as the daughter of King Pheres and Clymene (or Periclymene) and thus, the sister of Admetus,Apollodorus, 1.8.2; 1.9.14; 1.9.16 & 3.10.4 Lycurgus,Apollodorus, 1.9.14 EidomeneApollodorus, 1.9.11 and Periopis.Apollodorus, 3.13.8 Later on, she married Cometes of PeirasiaApollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.20 ff.; Apollodorus, 1.9.16 and became the mother of Asterion, one of the Argonauts.Hyginus, [https://topostext.org/work/206#14 Fabulae 14]
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References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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