| A | B |
|---|
| Choaragos | leader of the Chorus |
| Jocasta | Antigone's mother |
| Oedipus | killed his father; married his mother |
| Thebes | setting of Antigone |
| Polyneices | did not receive proper buriel; Antigone's brother |
| Eurydice | Creon's wife; Haimon's mother |
| Antigone | daughter of Oedipus; engaged to Haimon |
| Ismene | daughter of Oedipus; "hands are clean" |
| Creon | King of Thebes |
| Sentry | guard who brings Antigone to King |
| Haimon | Creon's son; engaged to Antigone |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love and beauty |
