Antigone is a daughter of the accidentally incestuous marriage between Oedipus and his mother Jocasta. She is the subject of Sophocles’s tragedies Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, in which she attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polyneices, even though he was a traitor to Thebes.
Narcissus fell in love with his twin sister. When she died, Narcissus pined after her and pretended that the reflection he saw in the water was his sister, and he wasted away to death.
Narcisse tomba amoureux de sa soeur jumelle. Quand elle décéda, Narcisse se languit d’elle éperdument et prétendit que la réflexion qu’il voyait dans l’eau était sa bien aimée, ainsi dépérit-il jusqu’à mourir lui aussi.
