Ismene

The daughter of Oedipus by Iocaste, or, according to others, by Eurygeneia, the daughter of Hyperphas. In the tragedies by Sophocles she appears as the weaker sister of Antigone and obeyed Creon's orders not to bury the body of their brother Polynices.

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References

Sources

  • Euripides. Phoenician Women, 56.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 5.8.
  • Sophocles. Antigone, 1 ff.; Oedipus at Colonus, 321.