seven against thebes

Question 1

the seven (eight?) in question

Answer 1

tydeus, adrastus, amphiarius, eteoclus, capaneus, polyneices, parthenopaeus, mecisteus

Question 2

tydeus

Answer 2

son of oeneus, from calydon, was banished for murder, married off by adrastus to his daughter deipyle, died from his wounds and wasn’t made immortal when athena found him eating the brains of melanippus (that amphiarius had offered to him)

Question 3

adrastus

Answer 3

son of talaus, king of argos, only one to survive 7at, won the funeral games for opheltes with his divine fucking horse arion, his divine fucking horse arion also helped him escape w his life from thebes fight

Question 4

amphiarius

Answer 4

seer, married to eriphyle, brother in law to adrastus, said that errbody except adrastus gonna die (🤣), was pursued by periclymenus and fled toward chalcis with his charioteer baton/elato, almost died from periclymenus’s spear but zeus struck the earth with a thunderbolt and his chariot got swallowed up

Question 5

eriphyle

Answer 5

adrastus’s sister, amphiarius’s wife, usually the one to break up quarrel between her brother and her husband, accepted the bribe of the necklace and robe of harmonia from polyneices and pushed amphiarius to go on the expedition

Question 6

opheltes

Answer 6

infant son of king lycurgus/lycus and eurydice of island (?) nemea, cared for by hypsipyle who laid him in a bed of parsley b4 showing the 7at to some water, was strangled by a snake and DIED, 7at killed the snake, amphiarius was like “heh look that’s gonna be us soon,” then he was buried under the name archemorus (beginner of doom), games held in his honor were the start of the nemean games

Question 7

7at at mt cithaeron/thebes

Answer 7

tydeus demands eteocles’s surrender, eteocles sends 50 men to ambush him, tydeus kills them all except for maeon who is sent back to tell the tale

Question 8

7at at thebes fr

Answer 8

they all die except adrastus

Question 9

menoeceus

Answer 9

son of eteocles’s uncle creon, sacrificed himself bc tiresias said that the city (thebes) would be saved if he did

Question 10

capaneus

Answer 10

nephew of adrastus, died when he boasted that not even zeus could stop him from taking the city and then zeus stops him from taking the city by shooting him with a thunderbolt

Question 11

parthenopaeus

Answer 11

arcadian chieftain, died when a rock crushed his skull 😐

Question 12

mecisteus

Answer 12

brother of adrastus, died when bested by a theban champion

Question 13

eteoclus

Answer 13

capaneus’s brother in law, died when bested by a theban champion

Question 14

polyneices

Answer 14

mf whose shit started this whole thing, son of oedipus, brother of eteocles, went to adrastus for help when eteocles wouldn’t give up the throne so polyneices could have his turn, bribed eriphyle with the necklace and robe of harmonia, died by his brother’s blade during 1v1 (they were fated to kill each other)

Question 15

eteocles

Answer 15

mf whose shit started this whole thing like fr, son of oedipus, brother of polyneices, refused to give up the throne so polyneices could have his turn, sent 50 men to ambush tydeus at mt cithaeron (all but 1 were killed), died by his brother’s blade during 1v1 (they were fated to kill each other)

Question 16

creon

Answer 16

uncle to eteocles (and presumably polyneices), king of thebes when eteocles died, refused to let adrastus and other ppl of argos bury the dead

Question 17

antigone and haemon

Answer 17

sister of polyneices (and presumably eteocles?), son of creon, antigone gave polyneices his last rites, haemon defended her, they both died bc of it

Question 18

evadne

Answer 18

capaneus’s wife, said to have burned herself in grief on his pyre