-
several accounts of how
Eteocles and
Polynices shared the rule
after Oedipus's
departure from the city. In ****anicus's account,
Eteocles offers his brother...
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knowing of Oedipus's identity, she
married him and gave
birth to Antigone,
Eteocles,
Polynices and Ismene. She was
therefore both the
mother and the grandmother...
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brother Polynices. Oedipus's sons,
Eteocles and Polynices, had
shared rule
jointly until they quarreled, and
Eteocles expelled his brother. In Sophocles'...
- Oedipus's two sons,
Eteocles and Polynices,
arranged to
share the kingdom, each
taking an
alternating one-year reign. However,
Eteocles refused to cede his...
-
after the main
protagonist Antigone.
After Oedipus' self-exile, his sons
Eteocles and
Polynices engaged in a
civil war for the
Theban throne,
which resulted...
-
connection between Eteocles and the
Charites is
confirmed by the
account of Theocritus, who
refers to the
Charites as "divine
daughters of
Eteocles".
Strabo also...
-
ruler of Thebes. Oedipus's sons,
Eteocles and Polynices, had
shared the rule
jointly until they quarreled, and
Eteocles expelled his brother. In Sophocles'...
- a
quarrel between the
brothers Polynices and
Eteocles over the
kingship of Thebes.
Polynices and
Eteocles had been
cursed by
their father Oedipus, the...
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brother of
Eteocles. When
Oedipus was
discovered to have
killed his
father and
married his mother,
Oedipus was
expelled from Thebes,
leaving Eteocles and Polynices...
- her
sister Megaera stir
Polynices to
challenge Eteocles to
single combat to
decide the war.
Eteocles is
hesitant but he is
urged by
Creon to
accept the...
