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A daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes. She buried, by night, her brother Polynices, against the orders of Creon, for which offense he ordered her to be buried alive. She, however, killed herself on hearing of the sentence. The death of Antigone is the subject of one of the finest tragedies of Sophocles.
Antiochia and -ea. The capital of the Greek kingdom of Syria.