Antigone

Antigone, the daughter, in Greek legend, of OEdipus, King of Thebes, to whom she served as a guide and protectress when he was blind and exiled. Disobeying the commands of Creon, she gave the rites of burial to the corpse of her brother Polynices, and was condemned to a living tomb, her lover Haemon, Creon's son, killing himself on the spot where she died. Antigone was the subject of dramas by Sophocles and Euripides, and has been handed down from age to age as a pattern of maidenly courage and sisterly love.