Antigone

Stories tagged Antigone:

• The Story of Antigone Aug 2, 2025

  

  In the ancient city of Thebes, where tragedy seemed to follow the royal family like a shadow, there lived a young woman whose courage and devotion to justice would make her name immortal. This was Antigone, daughter of the tragic king Oedipus, whose brief life became a shining example of moral courage in the face of tyranny.

  Antigone was born into a family marked by fate and cursed by the gods. Her father, Oedipus, had unknowingly fulfilled the terrible prophecy of killing his father and marrying his mother. When the truth was revealed, Oedipus had blinded himself in horror and eventually died in exile, leaving behind his four children: Antigone, her sister Ismene, and their brothers Eteocles and Polynices.