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Ismene
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Greek_mythology/M7k4FvW8">Greek mythology</a>, Ismene is a <a href="/facts/Thebes,_Greece/PBN0g5la">Theban</a> princess. She is the daughter and half-sister of <a href="/facts/Oedipus/7eGCgyJ6">Oedipus</a>, king of Thebes, daughter and granddaughter of <a href="/facts/Jocasta/aWVWh60P">Jocasta</a>, and sister of <a href="/facts/Antigone/XTcBLahH">Antigone</a>, <a href="/facts/Eteocles/xC7YVBQr">Eteocles</a>, and <a href="/facts/Polynices/yGAUQxgM">Polynices</a>. She appears in several <a href="/facts/Greek_tragedy/4P3clg5x">tragic</a> plays of <a href="/facts/Sophocles/5C4zjFU8">Sophocles</a>: at the end of <i><a href="/facts/Oedipus_Rex/DYq3QtKq">Oedipus Rex</a></i>, in <i><a href="/facts/Oedipus_at_Colonus/bq05LwGb">Oedipus at Colonus</a></i> and in <i><a href="/facts/Antigone_(Sophocles)/J5wQaFN9">Antigone</a></i>. She also appears at the end of <a href="/facts/Aeschylus/nRDPzqG6">Aeschylus</a>' <i><a href="/facts/Seven_Against_Thebes/rNNXG1G7">Seven Against Thebes</a></i>. </p>