Seven Against Thebes expedition
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Adrastus's campaign · the expedition · the expedition against Thebes · the quarrel between Adrastus and the race of Cadmus · the war on Thebes
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Suppliants
The earlier military campaign in which Adrastus led seven Argive chieftains against Thebes to install Polynices, ending in their deaths.
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Nemean
The mythic military campaign of the Seven Against Thebes, ending in near-total destruction of the Argive army save for the miraculously-rescued Amphiaraus.
and once they led a noble army of men to seven-gated Thebes—an expedition not attended by birds of good omen.
For once Adrastus fled from bold-thinking Amphiaraus and terrible civil strife, from his ancestral home, Argos;
But, for the sake of Amphiaraus, Zeus with his all-powerful thunderbolt split the deep-breasted earth, and concealed him together with his horses, before he could be struck in the back by the spear of Periclymenus, and his warlike spirit disgraced.