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- battle; Polynices and Eteocles face off against one another in single combat and kill each other.[citation needed] Ten years after Polynices' death, the...
- shaming of Thebes' traitor Polynices. The play follows the attempts of their sister Antigone to bury the body of Polynices, going against the decision...
- resulted from a quarrel between the brothers Polynices and Eteocles over the kingship of Thebes. Polynices and Eteocles had been cursed by their father...
- who ascended to the throne of Thebes, decreed that Polynices was not to be buried. Antigone, Polynices' sister, defied the order but was caught. Creon decreed...
- attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices. Oedipus's sons, Eteocles and Polynices, had shared rule jointly until they quarreled, and...
- daughters to the exiles Polynices and Tydeus and promised to restore them to their homelands. He first ****embled an army to place Polynices on the throne of...
- Look up Polynice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polynice is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Eniel Polynice (born 1988), American...
- 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 Haimon....
- concerns the battle between an Argive army, led by seven champions including Polynices who were called the Seven against Thebes, and the army of Thebes led by...
- by his own children. Oedipus responded by cursing his sons Polynices and Eteocles. Polynices and Eteocles made a pact that each should rule alternately...