1. Antigone - Noun
2. Antigone - Proper noun
(Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death
Source: WordNetAntigone rejects life as desperately meaningless but without affirmatively choosing a noble death. Source: Internet
Although Creon has a change of heart and heads to the tomb to release Antigone, Creon's son Hæmon (who was engaged to Antigone) stabs himself after seeing that Antigone has hanged herself in the tomb. Source: Internet
Antigone decides to bury his body and face the consequences of her actions. Source: Internet
The play, “AntigoneNOW,” a reinterpretation of the 2,000-year-old Greek tragedy “Antigone” by Sophocles, will be an entirely novel production. Source: Internet
In Euripides, the calamity is averted by the intercession of Dionysus and is followed by the marriage of Antigone and Hæmon. Source: Internet
By way of illustrating his method, he invited me to attend a screening that night of their film “Antigone,” from 1992, and to call him back a couple of days later. Source: Internet