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That she is maternal in protecting her brotherPolyneices' rights but that she is masculine in verbalizing those rights is the way in which Antigone is a mixture of two sexes in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone is feminine in being so motherly about her brother that both the chorus and the guards notice and comment. At the same time, she is masculine in being so aggressive about Polyneices that her sister Princess Ismene and her uncle King Creon notice and disapprove. The irony lies in the fact that she is neither a mother nor a soldier.

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