When the Argives ( of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes or Statius ' Thebaid ) marched against Thebes, they met Hypsipyle and made her show them a fountain where they could get water.

Heaven, Hell, and the Divine Despot may descend to earth and have offspring in the Hamlet theme which involves a child's " ambivalent attitude " toward its parents and off of which are spun such variants as Oedipus and Orestes ( Bodkin 1934: 11-15, cited in Williams 1973: 221 ), or all may remain at the divine level, as in the situation with Milton's God and Satan, or Aeschylus's Zeus and Prometheus:

Other tragedians also used recognition scenes but they were heroic in emphasis, as in Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers, which Euripides parodied with his mundane treatment of it in Electra ( Euripides was unique among the tragedians in incorporating theatrical criticism in his plays ).

In Aeschylus's Oresteia, the story is begun with Agamemnon's return home, to find that his wife, Clytemnestra, had married her lover, Aegisthus.

His familiarity with Athenian tragedy is demonstrated, for example, in a number of passages echoing Aeschylus's Persae, including the epigrammatic observation that the defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis caused the defeat of the land army ( Hist.

Ctesias claims that the Athenian fleet numbered only 110 triremes, which ties in with Aeschylus's numbers.

The debt however was mutual and Bacchylides borrowed from tragedy for some of his effects – thus Ode 16, with its myth of Deianeira, seems to assume audience knowledge of Sophocles's play, Women of Trachis, and Ode 18 echoes three plays – Aeschylus's Persians and Suppliants and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex.

Atwood holds that, with the rise of Ancient Greece, and especially the installation of the court system detailed in Aeschylus's Oresteia, this deity has been replaced by a more thorough conception of debt.

In Aeschylus's play Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is son of the goddess Themis with no father named ( but still with at least Atlas as a brother ).

1876 ); translated with introduction and flutes Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, and wrote a Prometheus Unbound ( 1844 ), in which Prometheus is brought to see the greatness of his offence and is pardoned by Zeus.

Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, which places both trinities of sisters far off " on Kisthene's dreadful plain ":

In the 1970s, Fagles began translating much Greek drama, beginning with Aeschylus's The Oresteia.

The first record of a shield blazon is illustrated in Aeschylus ' tragedy Seven Against Thebes.

Theseus welcomed the wandering Oedipus and helped Adrastus to bury the Seven Against Thebes.

* Seven Against Reeves: A Comedy-Farce ( 1938 ) novel

The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus ' Seven Against Thebes ends.

The chorus in Antigone departs significantly from the chorus in Aeschylus ' Seven Against Thebes, the play of which Antigone is a continuation.

The chorus in Seven Against Thebes is largely supportive of Antigone's decision to bury her brother.

Seven of the original eight Lazy Guns were destroyed before the events of Against a Dark Background.

Oedipus and Jocasta had four children: two sons, Eteocles and Polynices ( see Seven Against Thebes ), and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene.

After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters ( as portrayed in the Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus and the Phoenician Women by Euripides ).

Generally, the play weaves together the plots of the Seven Against Thebes and Antigone.

* Aeschylus writes Seven Against Thebes and wins the Dionysia.

Polynices came to him for advice on how to get Amphiaraus to join the Seven Against Thebes.

* Iphis, a Theban warrior, one of the defenders against the Seven Against Thebes.

* Hypseus, son of Asopus, who fought in the war of the Seven Against Thebes.

In the Iliad, he boasts that he captured the city of Thebes, while his father, fighting among the Seven Against Thebes, died attempting the same thing.

This battle is the subject of Aeschylus ' tragedy Seven Against Thebes.

The Seven Against Thebes then attacked Thebes, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

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After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters of the Argive ( the Seven Against Thebes ).

Polynices gathered an army and attacked the city of Thebes in a conflict called the Seven Against Thebes.

Aeschylus ' Seven Against Thebes recounts the story of the war which followed.

As one of the Epigoni, he was a leader of the Argives who attacked Thebes, taking the city in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who died while attempting the same thing.

The material of the tragic war of the Seven Against Thebes was taken up from several points-of-view by each of the three great Greek tragic poets.

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Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the raid that initiated the mythic tale of the Seven Against Thebes, though she knew he would die.

Classics professor Froma Zeitlin of Princeton University discussed misandry in her article titled " Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy.

Eventually they had a son Parthenopaios, who was one of the Seven against Thebes.

** Ancient Thebes ( Boeotia ), Thebes of the Seven Gates

The First play was Laius, the second was Oedipus, and the third was Seven against Thebes.

Due to the popularity of Sophocles's Antigone ( c. 442 BC ), the ending ( lines 1005-78 ) of Seven against Thebes was added some fifty years after Aeschylus ' death.

" The End of the Seven against Thebes " The Classical Quarterly 26. 2 ( 1976 ) 206-19.

The Seven against Thebes (, Hepta epi Thēbas ; ) is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC.

After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and as a result, Polynices raised an army ( captained by the eponymous Seven ) of Argives to take Thebes by force.