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ARTICLES RELATED TO Antigone | | | |  Antigone: Encyclopedia - AntigoneThere were two women named Antigone ("like her ancestors") in Greek mythology.
Antigone - Daughter of Oedipus.
The best known Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Iocaste (Jocasta), or, according to the older story, of Euryganeia. When Oedipus, on discovering that Iocaste, the mother of his children, was also his own mother, put his eyes out and stepped down as King of Thebes, Antigone accompanied him into exile at Colonus. After his death she returned to Thebes, where Haemon, the son of Creon, ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia II - Antigone - Daughter of Oedipus The best known Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Iocaste (Jocasta), or, according to the older story, of Euryganeia. When Oedipus, on discovering that Iocaste, the mother of his children, was also his own mother, put his eyes out and stepped down as King of Thebes, Antigone accompanied him into exile at Colonus. After his death she returned to Thebes, where Haemon, the son of Creon, king of Thebes, became enamoured of her. Oedipus had given the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year. However, the sons showed no concern for the ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia - Acastus In Greek Mythology, Acastus was one of the men who sailed with Jason and the Argonauts. His father was Pelias, then king of Ioklos who was later killed thanks to a trick by Medea. In revenge, Acastus drove Jason and Medea into exile, and so became king of the country himself.
Acastus purifed Peleus of the murder of King Eurytion of Phthia Then, Peleus lost a wrestling match in the funeral games of Pelias to Atalanta. Astydameia, Acastus' wife, fell in love with Peleus but he scorned her. Bitter, she sent a messenger to Antigone, Peleus' wife and daughter of Eurytion, to tell her that Peleus was to marry Acastus ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia - Troy Troy (Greek Τροία Troia also Ἰλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is described in Homer's Iliad, an epic poem in Ancient Greek, composed in the 8th or 7th century BC, but containing older material (Iliad means "epic of Ilion").
Troy (Turkish: Truva) is also the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, in Asia Minor or Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now northwest Turkey, so ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia - Vincent Ebrahim Vincent Ebrahim is a British actor of Indian ethnicity. Born in South Africa, he studied drama at the University of Cape Town.
After immigrating to Britain in 1976, he spent a decade with a traveling theater company, performing in plays such as Borderline by Hanif Kureishi. Since 1990, he has worked with Tara Arts, performing in such plays as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Oedipus the King, Troilus and Cressida, and Antigone.
He is probably best known for playing Ashwin, the finance-obsessed father, on The Kumars at No ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia - Creon In Greek mythology, Creon, or Kreon ("ruler"), son of Menoeceus, was the father of Haemon and Megara by his wife, Eurydice. Also occasionally the uncle of Amphitryon.
When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year. However, they showed no concern for their father, who cursed them for their negligence. After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters (the Seven ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia - Oedipus Oedipus (Greek Οἰδίπους, Oidipous, "swollen-foot"; rarely Οἰδίπος; Latin Oedipus) or Œdipus was the mythical king of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta, who, unknowingly, killed his father and married his mother.
Oedipus' father, Laius, kidnapped and raped the young boy Chrysippus, and was in turn cursed by Chrysippus' father, Pelops. The weight of this curse bore down onto Oedip ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia II - Loeb Classical Library - Volumes published (from [1])
A tip for readers: The listings of Loeb volumes at online bookstores vary considerably. If you want to buy a volume, it is probably quickest to look it up on HUP's Web site, get the ISBN, and then search for that. Likewise, the volumes are not always listed consistently in library catalogues, so you may find them more easily if you search by ISBN or the translator's name.
Loeb Classical Library - Greek.
L145) Volume I. Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes
L146) Volume ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia II - Anarchism - History of anarchism see also Past and present anarchist communities
Anarchism - Chart of influences.
Anarchism - Justice against the state.
The first essay explicitly advocating the absence of government was "A Vindication of Natural Society" (1756) by Edmund Burke. The first positive theory of anarchism was William Godwin's An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793). This was a very influential tract; though he did not use the word anarchism, some today regard him as the ...
See also:Anarchism, Anarchism - Precursors of anarchism, Anarchism - Primitive cultures, Anarchism - Philosophical traces, Anarchism - Ancient Greece, Anarchism - Anabaptists and Diggers, Anarchism - Age of Enlightenment, Anarchism - History of anarchism, Anarchism - Chart of influences, Anarchism - Justice against the state, Anarchism - The first self-labelled anarchist, Anarchism - Egoism, Anarchism - Individualist anarchism Liberal anarchism, Anarchism - The International, Anarchism - Anarchist Communism, Anarchism - Propaganda by the deed, Anarchism - Anarchism at work, Anarchism - The Russian Revolution, Anarchism - The fight against fascism and the Spanish Civil War, Anarchism - Religion, Anarchism - Anarchism and feminism, Anarchism - Contemporary anarchism, Anarchism - Anarcho-capitalism, Anarchism - Anarcho-syndicalism, Anarchism - The platformist tradition, Anarchism - Post-left anarchy, Anarchism - Post-structuralism, Anarchism - Insurrectionary anarchism, Anarchism - Small 'a' anarchism, Anarchism - Anarcho-primitivism, Anarchism - Issues, Anarchism - Conceptions of an anarchist society, Anarchism - Environmentalism, Anarchism - Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression, Anarchism - Neo-imperialism and Globalization, Anarchism - Parallel structures, Anarchism - Technology, Anarchism - Pacifism, Anarchism - Parliamentarianism, Anarchism - Cultural phenomena, Anarchism - Historical events, Anarchism - Books, Anarchism - Anarchism by region/culture Read more here: » Anarchism: Encyclopedia II - Anarchism - History of anarchism |
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia II - Laurence Olivier - Life Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey. He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. It was his father, Gerard Kerr Olivier, an Anglican priest, who decided that Laurence - or Kim as the family called him - would become an actor. His stage breakthrough was as in Noel Coward's Private Lives (in 1930), and in Romeo and Juliet (in 1935) alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with John Gielgud. His film breakthrough was his portrayal of Heathcliff in ...
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| | | | Antigone: Encyclopedia II - Mikis Theodorakis - Biography
Mikis Theodorakis - The early years World War II and first works.
Theodorakis' fascination with music began in early childhood; he taught himself to write his first songs without access to musical instruments. In Pyrgos and Patras he took his first music lessons, and in Tripolis, Peloponnese, he formed a choir and gave his first concert at the age of seventeen.
During World War II he was active in the resistance against the fascist Italian and German occupation troops, helping starving children and Jewish ...
See also:Mikis Theodorakis, Mikis Theodorakis - Biography, Mikis Theodorakis - The early years World War II and first works, Mikis Theodorakis - Back to Greek roots — recognition, Mikis Theodorakis - The junta — going underground — imprisonment — banishment, Mikis Theodorakis - Exile — resistance, Mikis Theodorakis - Return to Greece — activism — prolific writing, Mikis Theodorakis - A lifetime's work: synopsis, Mikis Theodorakis - Songs and song cycles, Mikis Theodorakis - Symphonic works, Mikis Theodorakis - Chamber music, Mikis Theodorakis - Cantatas and oratorios, Mikis Theodorakis - Hymns, Mikis Theodorakis - Ballets, Mikis Theodorakis - Operas, Mikis Theodorakis - Music for the stage, Mikis Theodorakis - Principal film scores, Mikis Theodorakis - Political views, Mikis Theodorakis - Political quotations, Mikis Theodorakis - On his alleged anti-Semitism, Mikis Theodorakis - On 9/11, Mikis Theodorakis - Bibliography, Mikis Theodorakis - Bibliography - His own published written works Read more here: » Mikis Theodorakis: Encyclopedia II - Mikis Theodorakis - Biography |
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