Antigone (daughter of Laomedon)

In the surviving Latin literary tradition Antigone is a daughter of King Laomedon of Troy and sister of Priam who provoked Hera's anger—accounts differ as to how (a proud comparison with the goddess, a scholiast's claim that she slept with Zeus, or other formulations). Hera punished her; in some variants she turned Antigone's hair into snakes and later pitying gods transformed her into a stork, while other accounts present a direct transformation into a stork. The tale is transmitted chiefly through Ovid and later mythographers/scholiasts (e.g., Vatican Mythographers, Lactantius Placidus) and functions as a metamorphosis narrative and etiological explanation rather than evidence of cult or ritual practice.

As a human the sources identify Antigone only as a Trojan princess and provide no detailed physical description. In post‑transformation accounts preserved in later mythographic tradition she becomes a stork or a bird closely associated with cranes/storks; one mythographer tradition explicitly describes her as a white stork. Ovid's Metamorphoses mentions Antigone within the tapestry episode of Arachne but does not supply extensive ornithological detail; the fuller bird description appears in later scholiastic/mithographer variants that conflate crane/stork metamorph motifs.

Antigone's primary mythic 'abilities' are those of a transformed mortal: she is changed into a stork and, in the variant preserved by the Vatican Mythographers, is thereafter hostile to snakes (an etiological trait explaining observed avian behaviour) and is described as remaining hostile toward Zeus. No other supernatural powers, recurring hauntings, or cultic functions are attested in the supplied sources; her role is literary and aetiological.