Associations to the word «Antigone»

Wiktionary

ANTIGONE, proper noun. (Greek mythology) the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who defies the king of Thebes, Creon, by burying her brother Polynices

Dictionary definition

ANTIGONE, noun. (Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke