Antigŏne

, a daughter of Œdip us 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 Hæmon the king’s son, who was pa ionately fond of her, and had not been able to obtain her pardon, killed himself on her grave. The death of Anti gone is the subject of one of the tragedies of Sophocles. The A then i ans were so pleased with it at the first representation, that they presented the author with the government of Samos. This tragedy was represented 32 times at Athens without interruption. Sophocles , Anti gone .— Hyginus , fables 67, 72, 243, 254.— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 5 .— Ovid , Tristia , bk. 3 , poem 3.— Phi lost ratus , bk. 2 , ch. 29 .— Statius , Thebiad , bk. 12 , li. 350 .――A daughter of Eurytion king of Phthia in The aly. Apollo dor us. ――A daughter of Laomedon. She was the sister of Priam, and was changed into a stork for comparing herself to Juno. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 6 , li. 93 .