Allusion In Antigone

In Antigone, Sophocles uses allusions to praise her courage in accepting her fate. Antigone shared many similarities to Danae. In Ode 4 as the chorus describes the misfortune of Danae it is stated that “a prisoner hidden in a chamber like a tomb, although she too, came from a noble line. And she my child had in her care the liquid streaming golden seed of Zeus,”(line 2-4). This mirrors Antigone in the way that Antigone is too thrown into a cave and looked in it as if it was her tomb. Danae was imprisoned due to the prophecy that stated if Danae ever had a child it would kill her father (Acrisius). Her father threw Danae into the cave so the prophecy would not come true. Learned in Antigone no one can escape their fate therefore Danae becomes