Antigone's

Antigone kills herself soon after she has been interred in a cave, and Creon's son (Antigone's fiancé) and wife follow suit soon after.

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She invokes the Oedipus myth, Antigone's determination to bury her dead brother and Theseus's domestic problems: at one point, on his mobile phone to Hippolytus, he urges his son to trace the missing Phaedra and "keep it in the family".

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You're soon to be as lonely as sweet Antigone's tomb.

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Antigone's noble phrase, "the unwritten law of heaven" sinks down and disappears.

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Ismene, the more timid of the two, intends to obey it, but Antigone's stronger character rises in rebellion.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

War, horror, kindred bloodshed, with a promise of further agonies to arise from Antigone's resolve are the elements which Aeschylus has fused together in this vivid play.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

If it were felt that the deadly struggle between the two brothers closed the epic on a note of unrelieved gloom and horror, there was perhaps something to be said for introducing the story of Antigone's self-sacrifice, and closing on a note of tragic beauty.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

The despairing lover's cry broke in on Antigone's sorrow; Haemon,

Daphne, an autumn pastoral Margaret Pollock Sherwood 1909

Apollo stood in the centre of the stage, taking one voice, then another: now the angry tone of the tyrant, Creon, now the wail of the chorus, hurt but undecided, then breaking into the unspeakable sweetness and firmness of Antigone's tones.

Daphne, an autumn pastoral Margaret Pollock Sherwood 1909

In Antigone's story is found the whole tale of destiny's empire on wisdom.

Wisdom and Destiny Maurice Maeterlinck 1905