Antigone Family Tree: People, Sources and Citations

The people table

Every figure on the Antigone family tree

Each figure on the Antigone family tree has a row, with the texts that name it.

The people on the chart, in the order of its rows.
Portrait	Person	In the sources	On the chart
A	AresGod of war	Father of Harmonia, drawn as a name plate. Sources1	Find on the chart
A	AphroditeGoddess of love	Mother of Harmonia, drawn as a name plate. Sources1	Find on the chart
T	The dragon’s teethA power	Sown by Cadmus, they became armed men. Sources1	Find on the chart
C	ChthoniusA sown man	The grandfather of Nycteis. Sources1	Find on the chart
	CadmusFounder of Thebes	Son of Agenor, who killed the dragon of Ares and sowed its teeth. Sources1	Find on the chart
	HarmoniaWife of Cadmus	Daughter of Aphrodite and Ares, given to Cadmus by Zeus. Sources1	Find on the chart
P	PolydorusKing of Thebes	The only son of Cadmus and Harmonia. Sources1	Find on the chart
N	NycteisWife of Polydorus	Daughter of Nycteus, son of Chthonius, one of the sown men. Sources1	Find on the chart
L	LabdacusKing of Thebes	He gave the house its name and left a son a year old. Sources1	Find on the chart
M	MenoeceusFather of Creon and Jocasta	A Theban noble whose son and daughter both came to the throne. Sources1	Find on the chart
P	PolybusKing of Corinth	His herdsmen found the exposed baby. Sources1	Find on the chart
P	PeriboeaQueen of Corinth	She raised Oedipus as her own. Sophocles calls her Merope. Sources1 2	Find on the chart
L	LaiusKing of Thebes	Warned by an oracle, he exposed his son and was killed by him on the road. Sources1	Find on the chart
J	JocastaQueen of Thebes	Wife of Laius and then of their son Oedipus. Homer calls her Epicaste. Sources1 3	Find on the chart
	CreonKing of Thebes	Brother of Jocasta, who forbade the burial of Polynices. Sources1 2	Find on the chart
E	EurydiceWife of Creon	Named in Sophocles, where she takes her life after the death of Haemon. Sources2	Find on the chart
	OedipusKing of Thebes	He killed his father and married his mother without knowing them. Sources1 2	Find on the chart
E	EteoclesKing of Thebes	He kept the throne from his brother, and the two killed each other. Sources1	Find on the chart
P	PolynicesLeader of the Seven	He married Argia of Argos and fell at the gates of Thebes. Sources1	Find on the chart
I	IsmeneDaughter of Oedipus	The younger sister in Sophocles, who would not help with the burial. Sources1 2	Find on the chart
	AntigoneDaughter of Oedipus	She led her blind father to Colonus and buried Polynices against the order of Creon. Sources1 2	Find on the chart
H	HaemonSon of Creon	Betrothed to Antigone in Sophocles, a victim of the Sphinx in Apollodorus. Sources1 2	Find on the chart

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Every source of this Antigone family tree was opened on 10 November 2026. Apollodorus is cited by the section numbers of the Library. Sophocles is cited in the Storr translation of 1912 as Project Gutenberg prints it.

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