Ismene

Ismene
Antigone and Ismene by Emil Teschendorff (1892).
AbodeThebes, Ancient Greece
Personal information
ParentsOedipus
Jocasta or Euryganeia
SiblingsAntigone
Eteocles
Polynices

In Greek mythology, Ismene (/ɪsˈmn/; Ancient Greek: Ἰσμήνη, romanizedIsmḗnē) is a Theban princess. She is the daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, king of Thebes, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. She appears in several tragic plays of Sophocles: at the end of Oedipus Rex, in Oedipus at Colonus and in Antigone. She also appears at the end of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes.


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