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Antigone
Allusions in antigone
| myths | summary | summary | connection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Furies | They are three sister female spirits of justice and vengeance, Also called Erinyes (angry ones). They punished those who went against the laws of nature or of the gods. When they weren't punish on earth they lived in the underground punishing the damned. | She ask the furies to punish those who judged her meaning that it shows that punishment will be comming to creon from what the furies stand for. | |
| Tantalos | He stole nectar and ambrosia from the Zues table and brought them back to the people and revealed the secrets of the gods. As a sacrifice he cut up his son up and offered him as a meal to the gods. Son rebuilt by Zeus and with shoulder | shoulder of ivory by Demeter. Tant was punished by his horrifyng doing by being made to stand in a pool of water under a tree that when he would try to reach for the fruit or drink the water they would go lower or higher so he couldn't get any. | The father's Tantaos action of stealing led to the death of his child similar to how edipus caused the death of all his kids. |
| Phineus | He had a son with the gift of prophecy. He was married to cleopatra but locked her away once he fell inlove with someone else. She treated his 2 sons miserably and lied that they had tried to seduce her. So as punishment he blinded his kids. Phineus then | gets punished by the gods by them blinding him. Later Zeus gets angry at him and leaves him in an island where he cant eat until Iris helped him. | His wife being locked in a cave just like antigone |
| persephone | She was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She used to take care of nature/plants until she was ubducted by Hades and made the goddess of the underworld. Her mother became depressed as she searched for her lost daughter. The son told her her locations | so Zeus forced hades to returned her . But tricked her at the last minute by making her eat 6 pomegranate seeds so she had to return 6 months out of each year. | Persephone ended up in the underworld with against he will just like antigone will be. |
| dryas and lycurgos | Dryas was the Shepard of the people son of lycurgus. He was killed when his father went insane and mistook him for a trunck of ivry a plant holy to dionysus which lycurgos was trying to eliminate. Ly had pursueded all of dion followers and imprisoned them | Dion was forced to flee to the undersea so Dion was the one who drove Lycurgus insnae and led to the killing of his own son which led a curse onto the land until he was dead. | Lycurgus is unfair like creon since they both imprisoned innocent people . And since Lycurgus got punished it shows Creon will get too. |
| Drice | She was the wife of lycus and sister of antiope who was impressed by Zues. And because of that fled in shame leaving her children. Lycus sent his brother to get her and so he gave her as a slave to Drice. Amphion and Zethus (Antiope's kids) | punished the king and queen for their treatment on Antiope. Queen Drive was tied to a bulls horns as revenge. | Antigone was given an unfaire punishment for baring her brother which she thinks is not a crime same way Drice punishments as too extrem for just kepping her sister as a slave. |
| Danae | She is he daughter of king Acrisius. He was disappointed by his male heirs, he went ahead and asked an oracle if that would chance. Because of what the oracle said he looked Danae away. however she was still able to get empregnated by Zeus. When Acrisius | found out he left the two in a chest out in sea. They were saved by Zues and washed ashore. | Endured similar punishment of being locked away. |
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