Definitions for Ismene

Ismene Is·me·ne

Spelling: [is-mee-nee, -mey-, iz-]
IPA: /ɪsˈmi ni, -ˈmeɪ-, ɪz-/

Ismene is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in Ismene (eeimns).

Definitions for Ismene

noun

  1. a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.

Examples for Ismene

Old Minos is insanely in love with Ismene, who is so beautiful and virtuous.

His two sisters, Antigone and Ismene, discuss the edict which forbids his burial.

With a Thessalian hat of this kind Ismene appears in "Œdipus in Kolonos."

Ismene had a daughter herself just Xanthe's age, so it must probably have been true.

Ismene goes to carry out their instructions, and in her absence Theseus arrives upon the scene.

But the fair Ismene was not in the least disposed to listen to this grave and bigoted suitor.

Ismene has no right to share it when the risks are past, the penalty is paid.

Antigone and Ismene then enter, each bewailing the death of their brothers.

The distance 3.70 falls in the wide hiatus interior to the orbit of Ismene.

It ends with the news of the death of the two princes, and the lamentations of their two sisters, Antigone and Ismene.

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