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Antigone?

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bonnibaby · 07/07/2008 16:34

Just come across this for a girl-just out of interest what do you think?
Pronounced An-tig-oh-nee.

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nooka · 07/07/2008 16:45

It's not a good story! She was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta and the name means "unbending" because she was very very rigid (ended up, as many Greek tragic charactors did, by killing herself. You have the pronounciation right btw.

frogs · 07/07/2008 16:42

Sorry, for Regan you of course have to read King Lear, and for Hector you need Homer. But you get the idea.

frogs · 07/07/2008 16:42

Read Sophocles and then come back to us. Ditto Regan and Cassandra. Also Hector.

mamablue · 07/07/2008 16:41

Have you read it?

hanaflowerisnothana · 07/07/2008 16:41

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