Antigone

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Antigone is the title character in Sophocles' Antigone, in the Oedipus Cycle. Her story has been told and retold numerous times, both contemporaneously with Sophocles and since.

Retellings

• Sophocles, Antigone (the original)
• Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes : A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

Further reading

• Wikipedia