Antigone

/ænˈtɪɡəni/

Translation of "antigone" into Russian

Noun

/ænˈtɪɡəni/

Antigone

Antigones pl

Antigone is a character in a famous Greek tragedy.

Антигона — персонаж известной греческой трагедии.

Noun

/ænˈtɪɡəni/

A woman who defiantly upholds moral or familial duty in opposition to civil authority, likened to the figure of Antigone.

Ever the Antigone, she risked imprisonment to protest the unjust law.

Proper noun

/ænˈtɪɡəni/

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who defies King Creon by burying her brother Polynices.

Antigone chooses to honour divine law over the decree of Creon.

The tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes Antigone’s act of defiance and its consequences.

We studied Antigone in our classical literature seminar.