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What does Antigone mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Antigone? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Greek) the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who defies the king of Thebes, Creon, by burying her brother Polynices
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A name featured in mythology and implying strength of character.
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King Creon decrees that Polynices the traitor is not to be buried, but Antigone defies the order.
That aspect of his career began when he was just six years old, and his mother was studying Sophocles' Antigone as part of a university Classics course.
Pages of stories of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Oedipus and Antigone clog up her stream of consciousness.
There is also a moral or theological problem, as previously identified by Saint Thomas Aquinas, Antigone and Creon.
Similar incompatibilities could be seen reflected in Greek tragedies such as Antigone.
Antigone is the embodied substance of the divine law, the embodiment of the unwritten law.

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