ANTIG'ONE (4 _syl._), daughter of Oe'dipos and Jocas'tê, a noble maiden, with a truly heroic attachment to her father and brothers. When Oedipos had blinded himself, and was obliged to quit Thebes, Antigonê accompanied him, and remained with him till his death, when she returned to Thebes. Creon, the king, had forbidden any one to bury Polyni'cês, her brother, who had been slain by his elder brother in battle; but Antigonê, in defiance of this prohibition, buried the dead body, and Creon shut her up in a vault under ground, where she killed herself. Haemon, her lover, killed himself also by her side. Sophoclês has a Greek tragedy on the subject, and it has been dramatized for the English stage. _The Modern Antigonê_, Mariè Therèse Charlotte duchesse d'Angouleme, daughter of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette (1778-1851). ANTIG'ONUS, a Sicilian lord, commanded by king Leontês to take his infant daughter to a desert shore and leave her to perish. Antigonus was driven by a storm to the coast of Bohemia, where he left the babe; but on his way back to the ship, he was torn to pieces by a bear.--Shakespeare, _The Winter's Tale_ (1604). _Antig'onus (King)_, an old man with a young man's amorous passions. He is one of the four kings who succeeded to the divided empire of Alexander the Great.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Humorous Lieutenant_ (1647). ANTIN'OUS (4 _syl_.), a page of Hadrian, the Roman emperor, noted for his beauty. _Antin'ous_ (4 _syl_.), son of Cas'silane (3 _syl_.) general of Candy, and brother of An'no-phel, in _The Laws of Candy_ a drama by Beaumont and Fletcher (1647). ANTI'OCHUS, emperor of Greece, who sought the life of Per'iclês prince of Tyre, but died without effecting his desire.--Shakespeare, _Pericles Prince of Tyre_ (1608). ANTI'OPE (4 _syl_.), daughter of Idom'e-neus (4 _syl_.), for whom Telem'achus had a _tendresse_. Mentor approved his choice, and assured Telemachus that the lady was designed for him by the gods. Her charms were "the glowing modesty of her countenance, her silent diffidence, and her sweet reserve; her constant attention to tapestry or to some other useful and elegant employment; her diligence in household affairs, her contempt of finery in dress, and her ignorance of her own beauty," Telemachus says, "She encourages to industry by her example, sweetens labor by the melody of her voice, and excels the best of painters in the elegance of her embroidery."--Fénelon, _Télémaque_, xxii. (1700). He [_Paul_] fancied he had found in Virginia the wisdom of Antiope with the misfortunes and the tenderness of Eucharis.--Bernardin de St. Pierre, _Paul and Virginia_ (1788).