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Antigone , in Greek mythology, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. In Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, she and her sister Ismene follow their father into exile at Colonus. When her brothers Eteocles and Polynices killed each other in the war of the Seven against Thebes , Creon, King of Thebes, forbade the burial of the rebel Polynices. Antigone defied him and performed the funeral service. She hanged herself in the cave where Creon ordered her buried alive. In addition to Sophocles' Antigone, plays and operas that rework her legend have been written by Anouilh, Brecht, Cocteau, Honegger, and Orff.

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Antigone in Greek mythology, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, the subject of a tragedy by Sophocles. She was sentenced to death for defying her uncle Creon, king of Thebes, by burying the ritually unburied body of her brother Polynices, but she took her own life before the sentence could be carried out, and Creon's son Haemon, who was engaged to her, killed himself.

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Marginalia, brief critical notes published by Poe in various periodicals, including Graham's Magazine and the Southern Literary Messenger, during the 1840s. These were frequently excerpts from previously published reviews and articles, and dealt with such diverse subjects as Defoe, The Drama, Antigone, Plagiarism, Rhetoric, The Dash, and Men of Genius.

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