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- In Gr**** mythology, the Epigoni or Epigonoi (/ɪˈpɪɡənaɪ/; from ‹See Tfd›Gr****: Ἐπίγονοι, meaning "offspring") are the sons of the Argive heroes, the Seven...
- The Epigoni (Ancient Gr****: Ἐπίγονοι, Epigonoi, "progeny") is an ancient Gr**** tragedy written by the Gr**** playwright Sophocles in the 5th century BC...
- Epigoni (‹See Tfd›Gr****: Ἐπίγονοι, Epigonoi, "Progeny") was an early Gr**** epic, a sequel to the Thebaid and therefore grouped in the Theban cycle. Some...
- Epigoni are the progeny of the heroes who fought in the First Theban War. Epigoni can also refer to: Epigoni (play), a lost play by Sophocles Epigoni...
- thersos 'boldness, braveness' and ἀνδρός andros 'of a man') was one of the Epigoni, who attacked the city of Thebes. This is in retaliation for the deaths...
- rulers. In an 1843 work, "History of the Epigoni" (Geschichte der Epigonen) he details the kingdoms of the Epigoni, 280-239 BC. The only precise date is...
- family. The epics of the Theban Cycle were the Oedipodea, the Thebaid, the Epigoni, and the Alcmeonis. In the collection, the precise sequence of events and...
- deaths of their fathers; they are the known as the Epigoni. Unlike their fathers before them, these Epigoni are successful in their attempt to take Thebes...
- several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog–Mouse War"), the Margites...
- Sophocles also wrote other plays focused on Thebes, most notably the Epigoni, of which only fragments have survived. As Sophocles' Oedipus Rex begins...