Oedipus became king of Thebes and married Jocasta. She bore two sons, Polynices and Eteocles, and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene. A plague followed and the stage was set for the action of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Following Oedipus' exile, his sons agreed to share the rule of Thebes, alternating in rule every year.
However, Eteocles refused to give up his power after the first year and drove out Polynices. He fled to Argos, taking with him the gifts which the gods had given Harmonia at her wedding, including the necklace. Meanwhile, in Argos, Adrastus, king of Argos, had learned from an oracle that he must "yoke his daughters to a boar and a lion. He saw Polynices and Tydeus, an exile from Calydon, fighting.
One of them had a boar painted on his shield, the other a lion. Adrastus immediately recognized the true meaning of the oracle, stopped the fight, and married his daughters to them. He further agreed to restore them to their homelands, starting with Thebes. Adrastus summoned heroes from Argos to lead the campaign against Thebes.
Meanwhile, the exiled Oedipus, accompanied only by Antigone, made his way to the Grove of the Furies at Colonus, territory under the control of Athens. The inhabitants demanded that he leave before he defiled the grove, and they summoned Theseus, ruler of Athens. Ismene arrived, reporting on the fighting between Polynices and Eteocles, and she revealed that the Delphic oracle has declared that the city which possessed the bones of Oedipus could not be captured.
Creon and Polynices both arrived to kidnap Oedipus, but Theseus made them leave, though not before Oedipus could curse Polynices. He then withdrew, blessed his daughters, and vanished before Theseus. As Adrastus and the army approached Thebes, they sent Tydeus on ahead to try to talk Eteocles into abdicating the throne. He entered the city, defeated all the best Thebans at wresting, and killed all but one of the fifty men who were set in ambush to overwhelm him.
In the battle at Thebes, there were seven heroes on each side, and seven gates of the city. The Thebans learned from the seer Tiresias that only if Menoeceus, Creon's son, were sacrificed to Ares could they win the war. Menoeceus gladly killed himself outside the city. The Thebans drew lots to determine which gates they would defend. So far. A princess of Thebes, she's grown up in peace alongside her sister, Ismene, and brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles.
Her parents , King Oedipus and Queen Jocasta, are mad cool and everything is awesome. Furthermore, who were Antigone's siblings? The heroine Antigone is one of the four children of Oedipus her siblings are Ismene , Eteocles and Polyneices.
Antigone is a tragedy with a complicated family tree. Due to a curse put on Antigone's family , her mother is also her grandmother. When Oedipus and Jocasta realize this, they are ashamed and punish themselves, resulting in death for both of them. Creon was the husband of Eurydice, brother of Jocasta and father of Haemon and Megareus. She is a sister of Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene.
Is Antigone a girl? Antigone is a no-nonsense kind of woman—and even, when she first appears to us at the end of Oedipus the King— a no-nonsense little girl. Sophocles doesn't give her any lines, but her presence seems to be symbolic of the legacy of shame caused by Oedipus's horrific mistakes. Who is Creon's father? Antigone, the sister of Polyneices, refused to obey, and sprinkled dust upon her brother's corpse. The threatened penalty was inflicted; but Creon's crime did not escape unpunished.
This was in concordance with Tiresias foretelling that if anyone of the Spartoi should perish freely as sacrifice to Ares, Thebes would be freed from disaster. The Thebans were ultimately victorious. The battle is memorialized in Seven Against Thebes, the play by Aeschylus.
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