Antigo
a city of Wisconsin, in Langlade co. It is on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad and on Spring Brook river. It is the center of an important agricultural and lumbering region and has important industries, including the manufacture of wooden ware, flour mills, sawmills, wagon works, etc. It has a teachers' training school, a school for the blind, and a Carnegie library.
Pop. (1910) 7,196; (1920) 8,451.
ANTIGONE (an-tig'o-nē), in Greek mythology, the daughter of Edipus and Jocasta, celebrated for her devotion to her father and to her brother Polynices, for burying whom against the decree of King Creon she suffered death. She is heroine of Sophocles' hocles" "Edipus at Colonus" and his "Antigone"; also of Racine's tragedy, "The Hostile Brothers." ANTIGONUS (an-tig'ō-nus), one of the generals of Alexander the Great, born about 382 B. C. After the death of Alexander, Antigonus obtained Greater Phrygia, Lycia, and Pamphylia as his dominion. Ptolemy, Cassander, and Lysimachus, alarmed by his ambition, united ANTIGUA themselves against him; and a long series of contests ensued in Syria, Phœnicia, Asia Minor, and Greece, ending in 301 B. C. with the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, in which Antigonus was defeated and slain.
ANTIGUA (an-te'ga), one of the British West Indies, the most important of the Leeward group; 28 miles long, 20 broad; area, 108 square miles; discovered by Columbus, 1493. Its shores are high and rocky; the surface is varied and fertile. The capital, St. John (pop. about 10,000), is the residence of the governor of the Leeward Islands. The staple articles of export are sugar, molasses, rum. Pop., including Barbuda and Redonda, about 40,000.
ANTILLES (an-til'lez), another name for the West Indian islands, not including the Bahamas. Subdivided into Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles.