Antigone
3 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Antigone. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
an-tig'o-ne, a famous character in the legendary history of Greece. She is a notable example of filial love and sisterly devotion. She has been compared to Cordelia in Shakespeare's King Lear . Antigone is the subject of two of the tragedies of Sophocles. Her father, Oedipus, the victim of a direful fate, is driven from his kingdom, and, shunned by everyone but his daughter, is doomed to unhappy wanderings. At his death Antigone mourns: Alas! I only wished I might have died With my poor father; wherefore should I ask For longer life? Oh, I was fond of misery with him; E'en what was most unlovely grew beloved When he was with me. 2026 Editor's Note: Antigone — who defies the king to bury her brother — has become the enduring symbol of conscience against unjust law. Jean Anouilh staged her in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944 as veiled resistance, and she is still invoked wherever individuals defy the state, a 2,400-year-old touchstone of civil disobedience. (Ed: BR 2026-06-16)
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
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. 2026 Editor's Note: Although this play depicts the final events in the narrative sequence of the three Theban plays, it was actually the first of the triad written by Sophocles. The plot serves as a direct sequel to the events of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes, picking up after the civil war between Antigone 's brothers, Eteocles and Polynices. While the character also appeared in a now-lost play by Euripides, the version by Sophocles remains the primary source of her long-lasting cultural legacy. (Ed: BR 2026-07-07)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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."