Antigone (disambiguation)

Antigone may refer to the following persons and things:

Person

Antigone or Antigoni is the name of:

• Antigone is the name of several characters in Greek Mythology
• Antigone of Macedon, daughter of Cassander, mother of Berenice I of Egypt
• Antigone of Epirus, daughter of Berenice I of Egypt and wife of Pyrrhus of Epirus
• Antigone Kefala, contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage
• Antigoni Papadopoulou, Cypriot politician
• Antigone Plantagenet, daughter of Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester
• Antigoni Psychrami, Greek singer
• Antigoni Roumpesi, Greek water polo player

In the arts

• Antigone (Sophocles play), the famous play by Sophocles
  • Antigone (Mendelssohn) (1841), suite of incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn to Sophocles' play
  • Antigone (film), based on Sophocles' play
• Antigone (Euripides play), play by Euripides
• Antigone (Anouilh play), Jean Anouilh's play
• Antigone (Cocteau play), Jean Cocteau's play, based on Sophocles
• Antigone (Garnier play), Robert Garnier's play (published and performed in 1580)
• Antigone (Brecht play) (1948), Bertolt Brecht's play
• Antigonae (1949), opera adaptation of the myth by Carl Orff
• Antigona Furiosa (play), a play by Griselda Gambaro
• Antigonai, an opera based on fragments by Sophocles and Hölderlin for three choirs and a women trio by Carlos Stella
• Sinfonía de Antígona, the Symphony No. 1 by Carlos Chávez

In popular music

• Antigone (album), the album of a Metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn
• Antigone Rising, an all-girl rock band
• Antigone Foster, an Australian singer and songwriter based in the UK

Others

• 129 Antigone, an asteroid
• Antigone, Montpellier, redeveloped urban area in Montpellier, France
• Antigonia (Chaonia), an archaeological site located in the Antigone Komuna, Albania
• Antigone (island), one of the Princes' Islands
• Antigone (genus), a genus of cranes formerly placed in the genus Grus
• HMS Antigone, a fictional Royal Navy light cruiser in Warren Tute′s novel The Cruiser

Not to be confused with

Antigone is not to be confused with:

• King Antignus, Antigonus the Hasmonean (also known as Matisyahu Antigonus)
• Antigonus of Sokho (or Antignos Ish Socho), a Pharisee scholar.
• Antigens, molecules which can trigger an immune response.