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In Greek legend, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. Antigone was to be buried alive by order of King Creon for burying her brother Polynices (slain in combat with his brother Eteocles) against the tyrant's express command. Ismene declared that she had aided her sister and asked to share the same fate.

She appeared in several of Sophocles' plays Oedipus The King and Oedipus At Colonus as well as in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. The name is also given to a large asteroid which orbits around the edge of the main belt.

Wikipedia: Ismene

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