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ad approved the ratification of the Constitution and was not, therefore, an Anti-Federalist in the original sense of that term. See O.G. Libby, _Geographical Distribution of the Vote ... on the Federal Constitution, 1787-1788_ (University of Wisconsin, Bulletin, 1894); S.B. Harding, _Contest over the Ratification of the Federal Constitution in ... Massachusetts_ (Harvard University Studies, New York, 1896); and authorities on political and constitutional history in the article UNITED STATES. ANTIGO, a city and the county-seat of Langlade county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 160 m. N.W. of Milwaukee. Pop. (1890) 4424; (1900) 5145, of whom 965 were foreign-born; (1905) 6663; (1910) 7196. It is served by the Chicago & North Western railway. Antigo is the centre of a good farming and lumbering district, and its manufactures consist principally of lumber, chairs, furniture, sashes, doors and blinds, hubs and spokes, and other wood products. The city has a Carnegie library. Antigo was first settled in 1880, and was chartered as a city in 1885. Its name is said to be part of an Indian word, _neequee-antigo-sebi_, meaning "evergreen." ANTIGONE, (1) in Greek legend, daughter of Oedipus and Iocaste (Jocasta), or, according to the older story, of Euryganeia. When her father, on discovering that Iocaste, the mother of his children, was also his own mother, put his eyes out and resigned the throne of Thebes, she accompanied him into exile at Colonus. After his death she returned to Thebes, where Haemon, the son of Creon, king of Thebes, became enamoured of her. When her brothers Eteocles and Polyneices had slain each other in single combat, she buried Polyneices, although Creon had forbidden it. As a punishment she was sentenced to be buried alive in a vault, where she hanged herself, and Haemon killed himself in despair. Her character and these incidents of her life presented an attractive subject to the Greek tragic poets, especially Sophocles in the _Antigone_ and _Oedipus at Colonus_, and Euripides, whose _Antigone_, though now lost, is partly known from extracts incidentally preserved in later writers, and from passages in his _Phoenissae_. In the order of the events, at least, Sophocles departed from the original legend, according to which the burial of Polyneices took place while Oedipus was yet in Thebes, not after he had died at Colonus. Again, in regard to Antigone's tragic end Sophocles differs fr
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