Daughter of Eurytion of Phthia and first wife of Peleus, who received her together with a third of the kingdom when Eurytion purified him; she bore Polydora, but hanged herself on a false report that Peleus meant to set her aside for the daughter of Acastus.1
Apollodorus tells how Peleus came to Phthia, to Eurytion son of Actor, and was purified by him; in return Eurytion gave him his daughter Antigone to wife and the third part of the land. To Peleus and Antigone was born a daughter, Polydora, whom Borus son of Perieres took to wife.2
Her father's death came at her husband's hand. When Peleus went with Eurytion to hunt the Calydonian boar, in casting his dart at the beast he struck Eurytion unawares and killed him; so Peleus fled Phthia a second time, to Acastus at Iolcus, who purified him.3
There Antigone met her ruin through a lie. Astydameia, wife of Acastus, conceived a passion for Peleus, and when she could not prevail on him she sent word to his wife that Peleus was about to marry Sterope, daughter of Acastus. On hearing it, Antigone strung herself up.4
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