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Antigonë is a former municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Gjirokastër. The population at the 2011 census was 998. The municipal unit is known for the ancient city of Antigonia (Chaonia). The municipal unit consists of the villages Asim Zeneli, Arshi Lengo, Krinë, Tranoshisht and Saraqinisht.
Antigone ( ; ) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.
It is the third of the three Theban plays but was the first written, chronologically. The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends.
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 French form [ɑ̃tiɡɔn], approximately on-tee-GONE.
Antigone is the name of several characters in Greek Mythology.
- Antigone, daughter of Oedipus
- Antigone (daughter of Eurytion)
- Antigone of Troy, daughter of Laomedon
Antigone may refer to:
In the arts:
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Antigone (Sophocles play), the famous play by Sophocles
- Antigone (Mendelssohn) (1841), suite of incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn to Sophocles' play
- Antigone (film), based on Sophocles' play
- Antigone (Euripides play), play by Euripides
- Antigone (Anouilh play), Jean Anouilh's play
- Antigone (Cocteau play), Jean Cocteau's play, based on Sophocles
- Antigone (Garnier play), Robert Garnier's play (published and performed in 1580)
- Antigone (Brecht play) (1948), Bertolt Brecht's play
- Antigonae (1949), opera adaptation of the myth by Carl Orff
- Antigona Furiosa (play), a play by Griselda Gambaro
- Antigonai, an opera based on fragments by Sophocles and Hölderlin for three choirs and a women trio by Carlos Stella
- Sinfonía de Antígona, the Symphony No. 1 by Carlos Chávez
In popular music:
- Antigone (album), the album of a Metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn
- Antigone Rising, an all-girl rock band
- Antigone Foster, an Australian singer and songwriter based in the UK
Antigone may also refer to:
- 129 Antigone, an asteroid
- Antigone, Montpellier, redeveloped urban area in Montpellier, France
- Antigonia (Chaonia), an archaeological site located in the Antigone Komuna, Albania
- Antigone (island), one of the Princes' Islands
- HMS Antigone, a fictional Royal Navy light cruiser in Warren Tute′s novel The Cruiser
Antigone or Antigoni is the name of:
- Antigone of Macedon, daughter of Cassander, mother of Berenice I of Egypt
- Antigone of Epirus, daughter of Berenice I of Egypt and wife of Pyrrhus of Epirus
- Antigone Kefala, contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage
- Antigoni Papadopoulou, Cypriot politician
- Antigone Plantagenet, daughter of Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester
- Antigoni Psychrami, Greek singer
- Antigoni Roumpesi, Greek water polo player
Antigone is the third full-length album of the German metal band Heaven Shall Burn. It was released on April 26, 2004 through Century Media Records.
Antigone, also known as The Antigone of Sophocles, is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of Hölderlin's translation of Sophocles' tragedy. It was first performed at the Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland in 1948, with Brecht's second wife Helene Weigel, in the lead role. This was Brecht's first directorial collaboration with Caspar Neher.
Antigone is a 1961 Greek film adaptation of the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. It stars Irene Papas in the title role and was directed by Yorgos Javellas.
The film follows the story of the play closely, but ends differently–instead of Creon retiring back to the palace as in the play, the film ends with Creon retiring his kingship and exiling himself out of Thebes.
It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.
Antigone is an opera (tragédie musicale) in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. Honegger composed the opera between 1924 and 1927. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel.
Antigone is a play by Jean Cocteau, written in Paris in 1922.
The play is the myth as written by Sophocles in 441 BCE, albeit a concise or abridged version. Cocteau himself called it a 'contraction' of the Sophocles text.
The Antigone of Cocteau is modern, yet more traditional than the 1944 adaptation by Jean Anouilh. Cocteau's fondness for mythological subjects is shown in this piece (as in The Infernal Machine (1934)). Antonin Artaud played the role of Tiresias. It is dedicated to Genica Athanasiou, who played the title role.
The Greek mythological character of Antigone, daughter of Eurytion, was the wife of Peleus. Other Greek mythological characters with this name include Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, and Antigone of Troy, daughter of Laomedon.
Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina. Peleus and his brother Telamon killed their half-brother Phocus, possibly accidentally. To escape punishment they fled from Aegina. At Phthia, Peleus was purified by Eurytion, king of Phthia, and married Eurytion's daughter, Antigone. Peleus and Antigone had a daughter, Polydora.
During the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, Peleus accidentally killed Eurytion and fled Phthia. Arriving in Iolcus, Peleus was purified of the murder of Eurytion by Acastus, the king of Iolcus.
According to the Bibliotheca, Peleus took part in the funeral games which followed the death of Acastus' father, Pelias, and lost a wrestling match to the virgin huntress, Atalanta.
Acastus' wife, Astydameia, made advances to Peleus, which he rejected. Bitter, she sent a message to Antigone falsely accusing Peleus of infidelity, whereupon Antigone hanged herself (Apollodorus, iii. 13).
Astydameia then told Acastus that Peleus had tried to rape her. Believing her accusation, Acastus took Peleus on a hunting trip, hid Peleus's sword, and abandoned him just as a group of centaurs attacked. Chiron, the wise centaur, returned Peleus's sword, and Peleus managed to escape. He pillaged Iolcus and dismembered Astydameia, then marched his army between the pieces.
Antigone is a play by the Attic dramatist Euripides, which is now lost except for a number of fragments. According to Aristophanes of Byzantium, the plot was similar to that of Sophocles' play Antigone, with three differences. The date of the play is uncertain, but there is evidence that it was written late in Euripides' career, between 420 BCE and 406 BCE.
Antigone ( Op. 55; MWV M 12) is a suite of incidental music written in 1841 by Felix Mendelssohn to accompany the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, staged by Ludwig Tieck. The text is based on Johann Jakob Christian Donner's German translation of the text, with additional assistance from August Böckh.
The music is scored for narrator, tenor and bass soloists, two men's choirs and orchestra. It includes an overture and seven choruses. The choruses are set in the style of Greek chorus, with strophes and antistrophes sung antiphonally by the two choirs, with additional passages of recitative.
The first performance took place at the New Palace, Potsdam on 28 October 1841. A public performance followed a week later at the Berlin State Opera on 6 November 1841. The music was published that year by Kistner in Leipzig, with a dedication to his patron, King Frederick William IV of Prussia.
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.