Antigone (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Antigona or Antigone (/ænˈtɪɡəni/ 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.[1]
- Antigone, daughter of Laomedon.[2]
- Antigona, the Pheraean princess as the daughter of King Pheres[3] and Clymene (or Periclymene) and thus, the sister of Admetus,[4] Lycurgus,[5] Eidomene[6] and Periopis.[7] Later on, she married Cometes of Peirasia[8] and became the mother of Asterion, one of the Argonauts.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.13.1–3
- ↑ Ovid, Metamophoses 6.93
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ↑ Apollodorus, 1.8.2; 1.9.14; 1.9.16 & 3.10.4
- ↑ Apollodorus, 1.9.14
- ↑ Apollodorus, 1.9.11
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.13.8
- ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.20 ff.; Apollodorus, 1.9.16
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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
