Capaneus
Americannoun
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But Capaneus, not holding less notions than Mars on the approaching battle, drew up his division against the Electran gate.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
These were Adrastus the king, his two brothers Hippomedon and Parthenop�us, Capaneus his nephew, Polynices and Tydeus, and Amphiaraus.
From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by Berens, E.M.
He even rebukes the son of Capaneus for answering Agamemnon haughtily.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
Capaneus and Hippomedon are terrific warriors of gigantic stature and truculent speech, but they are wholly uninteresting.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
Evadne, wife of Capaneus, who flung herself upon his funeral pile and perished with him Evander, Arcadian chief, befriending Aeneas in Italy.
From Legends of Charlemagne by Bulfinch, Thomas
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