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Seven against Thebes (11,214 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

one of the Seven champions. Usually the Seven were Polynices, Tydeus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Parthenopaeus, Hippomedon, and Adrastus or Eteoclus, whenever

Adrastus (8,447 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Argos by his dynastic rival Amphiaraus. He fled to Sicyon, where he became king. Later he reconciled with Amphiaraus and returned to Argos as its king

Oicles (1,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Oicleus or Oecleus (/ˈɛkljuːs/; Οἰκλεύς), was the father of the seer Amphiaraus. He accompanied Heracles on his campaign against Troy. According to Homer's

Hypsipyle (play) (983 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

have Hypsipyle put to death, when Amphiaraus arrives and Hypsipyle pleads with him to speak in her defense. Amphiaraus tells Eurydice that the child's death

Alcmaeon (mythology) (993 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Thebes, who died while attempting the same thing. Alcmaeon was the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle and brother of Amphilochus. He had many progeny by different

Carcinus (writer) (460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

any inconsistencies. Aristotle points to an unnamed play of Carcinus which had a character, Amphiaraus, exit a temple. For some reason this seemed outrageously

Melanippus (1,378 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

seven attacking champions, Mecisteus and Tydeus, but was killed by either Amphiaraus, or by Tydeus himself as he died. (In versions where Melanippus is killed

Opheltes (2,517 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

when Amphiaraus arrives, tells Euridice that the child's death was destined, and proposes that funeral games be held in Opheltes' honor. Amphiaraus is able

Seven Against Thebes (play) (1,371 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

assailants, whose very names vary: some have their own identity, like Amphiaraus the seer, "who had his sanctuary and his cult afterwards... Others appear

Actor (mythology) (1,677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Seven against Thebes. He saw a chasm open in the earth that swallowed Amphiaraus. Actor, an old Theban servant of Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus. During

Alcmene (1,239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

According to Pausanias, the poet Asius made Alcmene the daughter of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. Hesiod describes Alcmene as the tallest, most beautiful

Theban Cycle (1,520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his mother, Eriphyle, because she arranged for the death of his father Amphiaraus, whose murder is told in Thebaid. There is a lot of debate about whether

Thyrsus (1,043 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

thyrsus is explicitly attributed to Dionysus and his followers in Euripides's play, The Bacchae, a Greek tragedy describing the degradation of Thebes in vindication

Lycurgus (of Nemea) (2,104 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The surviving fragments of the play contain only a few brief references to Lycurgus. In an early scene, Amphiaraus, one of the Seven against Thebes

Hypsipyle (5,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

have Hypsipyle put to death, when Amphiaraus arrives and Hypsipyle pleads with him to speak in her defense. Amphiaraus tells Euridice that the child's death

Kykeon (541 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

234. "Homeric Hymn to Demeter". Homeric Hymns. 210. Aristophanes. Peace (play). v. 712. Theophrastus. Characters. IV, 2–3. "Mixing the Kykeon" (PDF). Eleusis:

Dragons in Greek mythology (1,507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dragons play a significant role in Greek mythology. Though the Greek drakōn often differs from the modern Western conception of a dragon, it is both the

Phanes (931 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

considered by Aristophanes the first deity. According to Aristophanes, in a play where Phanes is called "Eros", Phanes was born from an egg created by Nyx

Moly (herb) (1,142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

can be eaten to counteract enchantments.[citation needed] In John Lyly's play Gallathea, Diana instructs her nymphs to "think love like Homer's moly, a

Tydeus (828 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Astacus. The goddess Athena intended to make Tydeus immortal, but the seer Amphiaraus, knowing this and hating Tydeus, cut off Melanippus' head and gave it

Greek Heroic Age (1,066 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Phoenissae (The Phoenician Women), patriotism is a significant theme. Adrastus Amphiaraus Capaneus Hippomedon Parthenopaeus Polynices Tydeus Adrastus Creon Megareus

Erinyes (2,905 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

poems to plays, the Erinyes form the Chorus and play a major role in the conclusion of Aeschylus's dramatic trilogy the Oresteia. In the first play, Agamemnon

Deianira (1,080 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with the poisoned Shirt of Nessus. She is the main character in Sophocles' play Women of Trachis. Deianira was the daughter of Althaea and her husband Oeneus

The Suppliants (Euripides) (1,558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

that he supported the attack on Thebes, against the advice of the seer Amphiaraus, in deference to his sons-in-law, Tydeus and Polynices. Theseus observes

Pandora's box (4,790 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

he was about to marry at the start of the play and she becomes engaged instead to a social upstart. The play by Philippe Poisson (1682–1743) was a one-act

Apollo (25,258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

favored Amphiaraus, a seer and one of the leaders in the war. Though saddened that the seer was fated to be doomed in the war, Apollo made Amphiaraus' last

Greek hero cult (3,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

this group of local cults where an oracle developed, as in the case of Amphiaraus, who was swallowed up by a gaping crack in the earth. Minor cults accrued

Trojan Horse (2,689 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the story is also alluded to in Greek classical literature. In Euripides' play Trojan Women, written in 415 BC, the god Poseidon proclaims: "For, from his

Iris (mythology) (3,127 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Achaeus wrote Iris, a now lost satyr play, which might have been the source of those vases' subject. In Euripides' play Heracles Gone Mad, Iris appears alongside

Ouroboros (3,779 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

a unique kind of mathematical concept, initially found in biology, would play an important role in the development of a true systemic theoretical biology

Kratos (mythology) (2,734 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley adapted the myth of Prometheus for his own play Prometheus Unbound. In Gabriel Fauré's three-act opera Prométhée, first performed

Rota Fortunae (1,922 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

serving to remind people of the temporality of earthly things. In the morality play Everyman (c. 1495), for instance, Death comes unexpectedly to claim the protagonist

Centaur (5,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Deities (Family tree) Heroes / heroines Oracles / seers Aesacus Aleuas Amphiaraus Amphilochus Ampyx Anius Asbolus Bakis Branchus Calchas Carnus Carya Cassandra

List of Greek mythological figures (8,160 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ζῆλος), spirit of eager rivalry, emulation, envy, jealousy, and zeal Amphiaraus (Ἀμφιάραος), a seer, and one of the Seven against Thebes who became an

Ian McShane (1,971 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his first film The Wild and the Willing (1962). He later played Satan in the York Mystery Plays in 1963. In the United Kingdom, McShane's best known role

Philinna Papyrus (1,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

incantation which is also known from a fragment of Aristophanes' lost play Amphiaraus. Lines 4–12 of the papyrus are a spell "προς παν κατακαλαυμα" ("for

Aristophanes (8,672 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Holkades, 423 BC) Clouds (first version, 423 BC) Proagon (Προάγων, 422 BC) Amphiaraus (Ἀμφιάραος, 414 BC) Plutus (Wealth, first version, 408 BC) Gerytades (Γηρυτάδης

Achaean Leaders (386 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Phocis were mentioned He was likely be Theseus' son meant by Euripides in his play Iphigenia at Aulis. 30 supply ships for the camps *with 50 oarsmen each who

Nyx (10,971 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Among descriptions of Nyx in 5th century BC tragedy, Euripides, in his play Ion, represents her as being "robed in black", and her chariot as being pulled

Leto (8,239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leto withdraws, to remain a matronly figure upon Olympus, her part already played. Besides the myth of the birth of Artemis and Apollo, Leto appears in other

Zagreus (8,170 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which Alcmaon called upon the powers of the earth to send up his father Amphiaraus." Gantz, p. 118; West 1983, p. 153; Aeschylus fr. 228 Sommerstein [= fr

Selene (12,056 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

possibly has Selene as the daughter of Leto, as does a scholium on Euripides's play The Phoenician Women which adds Zeus as the father. Furthermore, in Virgil's

Zeus (17,305 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

on whether you believe Pausanias, or Strabo. The hero Amphiaraus was honored as Zeus Amphiaraus at Oropus outside of Thebes, and the Spartans even had

Relic (7,461 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

protect Athens from enemy attack, and in Thebes, that of the prophet Amphiaraus, whose cult was oracular and healing. Plutarch narrates transferrals similar

Achelous (6,252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Achelous played a role in the story of the Argive hero Alcmaeon, who had killed his mother Eriphyle because of her treachery against his father Amphiaraus, and

Ancient Greek religion (7,679 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

places such as Tartarus and Elysium. A few Greeks, like Achilles, Alcmene, Amphiaraus, Ganymede, Ino, Melicertes, Menelaus, Peleus, and a great number of those

Inferno (Dante) (12,572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

his native city of Mantua. Among the sinners in this circle are King Amphiaraus (one of the Seven against Thebes; foreseeing his death in the war, he

Immortality (10,738 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

literally right under the ground. Among those humans made immortal were Amphiaraus, Ganymede, Ino, Iphigenia, Menelaus, Peleus, and a great number of those

Metamorphoses in Greek mythology (1,382 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Several months later, a baby boy emerged from the tree trunk. Spear of Amphiaraus Laurel Unclear During the war against Thebes, while the allies of Polyneices

History of Israel (34,386 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is "from the town of Posideion, which was founded by Amphilocus son of Amphiaraus, on the border between Cilicia and Syria, beginning from this as far as

Catalogue of Women (17,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

are attested by name. From Argos Amphilochus and Alcmaeon, the sons of Amphiaraus, attempted to win Helen, but were perhaps never able to join in the contest