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- In Gr**** mythology, Polynices (also Polyneices) (/ˌpɒlɪˈnaɪsiːz/; Ancient Gr****: Πολυνείκης, romanized: Polyneíkes, lit. 'manifold strife' or 'much strife')...
- war between the princely brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, who killed each other in combat. Polyneices had challenged his brother's claim to the throne...
- Theseus, King of Athens. Oedipus dies and strife begins between his sons Polyneices and Eteocles. They fight, and simultaneously run each other through. In...
- daughter of Oedipus King of Thebes, Greece, learns that her two brothers Polyneices and Eteocles have killed each other fighting on different sides of a war...
- Cadmus Pentheus Polydorus Oclasus Labdacus Menoeceus Laius Jocasta Oedipus Jocasta Eteocles Polyneices Ismene Antigone...
- sanctuary of the Seasons. On coming back from here you see statues of Polyneices, the son of Oedipus, and of all the chieftains who with him were killed...
- she has attempted to bring concord between her two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices. The two brothers are having a strong conflict to achieve the throne....
- and Polyneices to declare war on Thebes (Book 3). In the fourth book the Argive forces gather, commanded by the seven champions Adrastus, Polyneices, Amphiaraus...
- children. Laios and Oedipus. 7. The Theban Wars Eteocles and the exile of Polyneices to Argos. Prelude in Argos: Amphiaraos and Eriphyle. The advance against...
- that Sophocles' Antigone clearly means when she says that the burial of Polyneices was a just act in spite of the prohibition: she means that it was just...