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Tragic woman, person in opposition no more
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antigone
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jean Anouilh 's play Antigone is a tragedy inspired by Greek mythology and the play of the same name ( Antigone , by Sophocles ) from the fifth century B.C. In English, it is often distinguished from its antecedent by being pronounced similarly to its original ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
daughter of Oedipus, her name may mean "in place of a mother" in Greek, from anti- "opposite, in place of" (see anti- ) + gone "womb, childbirth, generation," from root of gignesthai "to be born" related to genos "race, birth, descent" (see genus ).
Usage examples of antigone.
It is a quiet scene, to show Antigone as a girl who believes that she has a duty - to break the law.
The chorus chanted the great ode to love as if it were a cheery hymn, and Antigone came to say her farewell to light and life.
From their talk he learnt that they had been told Antigone had met with an accident.
He loved her too, to distraction, and when he was killed in a duel over her, Lucie gave a great party, like a Roman empress, and in the morning she hanged herself like Antigone from a crimson cord.
Oedipus or Antigone are without effect on contemporary sensibility, I reply, hum, I forget what, something about comedy and self-explanatory context.
I thought about Antigone or poor dumb Desdemona, whichever, while I stood there getting redder and redder and sweatier and sweatier.
Main Street and whatever voodoo curse Antigone might have put on me last night.
Coming around the front of the store, we nearly crashed into Antigone whose nose was pressed up against the display window.
Everything else about Antigone, her pastel tank top, soft golden tan, exuded gentle femininity.
Brian said that night to Antigone, who had joined us for pizza and root beer.
I noticed too that Antigone had startled at the same instant, though not as intensely.
Even a cursory glance around the kitchen tells me that there's a strong theatrical bias to the guest-list - most of the chorus of The Bacchae are here, all talking at once, and Neil whatsisname, star of last term's acclaimed modern-dress production of Richard III is leaning on the fridge, talking amiably with the Duke of Buckingham, and Antigone, one of the hosts, is emptying cheesy wotsits into a big bowl.