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Ismene
[ is-mee-nee, -mey-, iz- ]
noun
, Classical Mythology.
- a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
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Ismene, the more timid of the two, intends to obey it, but Antigone's stronger character rises in rebellion.
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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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Ismene has no right to share it when the risks are past, the penalty is paid.
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The distance 3.70 falls in the wide hiatus interior to the orbit of Ismene.
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Old Minos is insanely in love with Ismene, who is so beautiful and virtuous.
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