-
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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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...
- a
quarrel between the
brothers Polynices and
Eteocles over the
kingship of Thebes.
Polynices and
Eteocles had been
cursed by
their father Oedipus, the...
- The two sons,
Eteocles and Polynices, in
order to
avoid bloodshed,
agreed to rule
Thebes in
alternate years.
After the
first year,
Eteocles refused to step...
- then of
their son Oedipus, and both
mother and
grandmother of Antigone,
Eteocles,
Polynices and Ismene. She was also
sister of
Creon and mother-in-law of...
-
ruler of Thebes. Oedipus's sons,
Eteocles and Polynices, had
shared the rule
jointly until they quarreled, and
Eteocles expelled his brother. In Sophocles'...
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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...
-
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...
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honoring of
Eteocles and the
public shaming of Thebes'
traitor Polynices. The
story follows the
attempts of Antigone, the
sister of
Eteocles and Polynices...
