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From Oxford Reference Online.
Antigone was the daughter of King Oedipus of Thebes and his mother-wife Jocaste. When her father had blinded himself and been exiled from Thebes after being revealed as the husband of his mother, the killer of his father, and the half brother of his children, Antigone accompanied her unfortunate father to Colonus, where he died. Sophoclestells of these events in his plays Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone is best known, however, for her deeds described in Sophocles's play Antigone.
After her father's death, Antigone returned to Thebes to find her two brothers Eteocles and Polynices fighting over the throne. When the brothers had succeeded in killing each other,Creon, who had taken over the crown and had supported Eteocles, refused to allow Polynices a proper burial. For Antigone this was sacrilege, and unaided by her much more passive sister Ismene, she defied the king and buried her brother. In the interest of public order, Creon felt obligated to punish his unrepentant niece and ordered her confined to a subterranean place, where she committed suicide. What Creon did not realize was that his son Haemon loved Antigone sufficiently to go to his own death at her side. (ORO, 5th)
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