Epigoni

British  

/ ɪˈpɪɡəˌnaɪ /

plural noun

1. Greek myth the descendants of the Seven against Thebes, who undertook a second expedition against the city and eventually captured and destroyed it

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Etymology

Origin of Epigoni

C20: from Greek epigonoi those born after

Example Sentences

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Epigoni

Fourthly, we get the belief in the old age of mankind, the belief, at all times harmful, that we are late survivals, mere Epigoni.

From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

His vast Thebais told the whole story from the arrival of Polynices at Argos to the victory of the Epigoni.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

The water which in old times rose from a spring, the Epigoni stored up in cisterns.

From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen

Why have the works of Arctinus escaped the attraction which drew to the name of Homer such epics as the Cypria, the Little Iliad, the Thebaid, the Epigoni, the Taking of Oechalia and the Phocais.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

To the Argives she prophecies a vengeance on Thebes by the Epigoni, sons of the Seven.

From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb