Antigone (daughter of Laomedon)

Antigone ( Greek  Ἀντιγόνη ) of Troy was in Greek mythology the daughter of Laomedon , the king of Troy, and the sister of Priam .

She boasted that her hair was more beautiful than the goddess Hera or - according to Roman tradition - as Juno . That is why the goddess Antigones turned hair into snakes. However, the other gods freed Antigone from her fate by turning her into a stork.

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• Ovid , Metamorphoses , Book Six , verses 93-98.

literature

• Wilhelm Vollmer: Dictionary of the mythology of all peoples . DirectMedia, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89853-417-0 (Edition Stuttgart 1874, 1 CDROM; or online ).
• Georg Wissowa : Antigone 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2404.
• Michael Grant , John Hazel: Who's Who in Classical Mythology . Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-26041-8 , p. 56.