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Subject: Re: ???
Author: Catalina   (guest, 68.154.19.112)
Date: October 31, 2003 at 7:39:49 PM
Reply to: ??? by Mary
Antigone (an TIG o nee) means something like that...It literally means "against birth," but in the sense that someone came out wrong and is an outcast from society (in the Oedipus cycle Antigone's father married his mother), not that they didn't want to be born.

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