Antigone (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Antigona or Antigone (; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη meaning 'worthy of one's parents' or 'in place of one's parents') was the name of the following figures:

• Antigone, daughter of Oedipus.
• Antigone, daughter of Eurytion and first wife of Peleus.^[1]
• Antigone, daughter of Laomedon.^[2]
• Antigona, the Pheraean princess as the daughter of King Pheres and Clymene (or Periclymene) and thus, the sister of Admetus,^[3] Lycurgus,^[4] Eidomene^[5] and Periopis.^[6] Later on, she married Cometes of Peirasia^[7] and became the mother of Asterion, one of the Argonauts.^[8]

Notes

1. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
2. [Ovid]
3. Apollodorus, 1.8.2; 1.9.14; 1.9.16 & 3.10.4
4. Apollodorus, 1.9.14
5. Apollodorus, 1.9.11
6. Apollodorus, 3.13.8
7. [Apollonius of Rhodes]
8. [Hyginus]

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.