Antigone, one of the tragic characters in the Greek legends, a daughter of Œdipus by his mother Jocasta. When Œdipus, after discovering that he had killed his father and married his mother, put out his eyes in despair and went to Attica, Antigone guided him on the way and attended on him till his death. She then returned to Thebes, where HAemon, son of the tyrant Creon, became enamored of her. The brothers of Antigone, Polynices and Eteocles, having fallen in the war for the possession of Thebes, and she having attempted to bury Polynices in defiance of an edict of Creon, the tyrant ordered her to be buried alive or to be shut up in a cave, and IIa?mon slew himself by her side. The story of Antigone was a favorite subject with the great tragic poets of Greece, and is told with some variations.