2-651-000 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Antigone and the Body of Polynices', 1880. Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC. Polynices, the son of Oedipus and Jocasta killed by his brother, Eteocles in a battle for the control of Thebes. From Stories from the Greek Tragedies by the Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. [Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, London, 1880]