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See also:ANTIGONE, (I) in See also:Greek See also:legend, daughter of See also:Oedipus and Iocaste (See also:Jocasta), or, according to the older See also:story, of Euryganeia. When her See also:father, on discovering that Iocaste, the See also:mother of his See also:children, was also his own mother, put his eyes out and resigned the See also:throne of See also:Thebes, she accompanied him into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile at Colonus. After his See also:death she returned to Thebes, where Haemon, the son of See also:Creon, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Thebes, became enamoured of her. When her See also:brothers See also:Eteocles and Polyneices had slain each other in single combat, she buried Polyneices, although Creon had forbidden it. As a See also:punishment she was sentenced to be buried alive in a vault, where she hanged herself, and Haemon killed himself in despair. Her See also:character and these incidents of her See also:life presented an attractive subject to the Greek tragic poets, especially See also:Sophocles in the Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, and See also:Euripides, whose Antigone, though now lost, is partly known from extracts incidentally preserved in later writers, and from passages in his Phoenissae. In the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the events, at least, Sophocles departed from the See also:original legend, according to which the See also:burial of Polyneices took See also:place while Oedipus was yet in Thebes, not after he had died at Colonus. Again, in regard to Antigone's tragic end Sophocles differs from Euripides, according to whom the calamity was averted by the intercession of See also:Dionysus and was followed by the See also:marriage of Antigone and Haemon. In See also:Hyginus's version of the legend, founded apparently on a tragedy by some follower of Euripides, Antigone, on being handed over by Creon to her See also:lover Haemon to be slain, was secretly carried off by him, and concealed in a shepherd's hut, where she See also:bore him a son See also:Macon. When the boy See also:grew up, he went to some funeral See also:games at Thebes, and was recognized by the See also:mark of a See also:dragon on his See also:body. This led to the See also:discovery that Antigone was still alive. Heracles pleaded in vain with Creon for Haemon, who slew both Antigone and himself, to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape his father's vengeance. On a painted See also:- VASE
- VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)
vase the See also:scene of the intercession of Heracles is represented (Heydermann, Uber eine nacheuripideische Antigone, 1868). Antigone placing the body of Polyneices on the funeral See also:pile occurs on a See also:sarcophagus in the See also:villa Pamfili in See also:Rome; and is mentioned in the description of an' See also:ancient See also:painting by See also:Philostratus (Imag. ii. 29), who states that the flames consuming the two brothers burnt apart, indicating their unalterable hatred, even in death.
(2) A second Antigone was the daughter of Eurytion, king of Phthia, and wife of See also:Peleus. Her See also:husband, having accidentally killed Eurytion in the Calydonian See also:boar See also:hunt, fled and obtained expiation from See also:Acastus, whose wife made advances to Peleus. Finding that her See also:affection was not returned, she falsely accused Peleus of infidelity to his wife, who thereupon hanged herself (See also:Apollodorus, iii. 13).
End of Article: ANTIGONE, (I)
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