Seven against Thebes

American  

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) seven heroes, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Eteoclus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polynices, and Tydeus, who led an expedition against Thebes to depose Eteocles in favor of his brother Polynices: the expedition failed, but the Epigoni, the sons of the Seven against Thebes, conquered the city ten years later.

2. (used with a singular verb) a tragedy (468? b.c.) by Aeschylus.

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Seven against Thebes British  

plural noun

1. Greek myth the seven members of an expedition undertaken to regain for Polynices, a son of Oedipus, his share in the throne of Thebes from his usurping brother Eteocles. The seven are usually listed as Polynices, Adrastus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Tydeus, and Parthenopaeus. The campaign failed and the warring brothers killed each other in single combat before the Theban walls See also Adrastus

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Seven against Thebes

But before that Atalanta had borne a son, Parthenopaeus, who was one of the Seven against Thebes.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Aeschylus in the Seven against Thebes had already represented the young heroine as defying the victorious citizens who forbade the burial of her brother, the rebel Polynices.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

And Alexis, in his Seven against Thebes, says— And all the parts of a fine conger eel Well hash'd together, overlaid with fat.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

One of Méav's exploits is recorded in the famous Táin bó Chuailgné, which is to Celtic history what the Argonautic Expedition, or the Seven against Thebes, is to Grecian.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

The Supplices, written about 421, carries a little further the history of the Seven against Thebes.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.