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- Word comparison: Antigone vs. Creon
Antigone vs. Creon
noun
- Classical Mythology. a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who defied her uncle, King Creon, by performing funeral rites over her brother, Polynices, and was condemned to be immured alive in a cave.
- (italics) a tragedy (c440 b.c.) by Sophocles.
noun
Classical Mythology.
- a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.