Adrastus

Polyneices:

Polyneices:

Polyneices:

Adrastus:

Adrastus:

Adrastus:

So Adrastus lived in Croesus ' house.

At last they sent messengers to Croesus, with this message:

So Atys was struck by the spear and fulfilled the prophecy of the dream.

of the Suppliants, says, “it rests with Adrastus to take the oath, to whom, as sovereign, the sole right of binding the country by treaties belongs.

This was a received opinion in ancient times, as we find from the language of Aeschylus, in whose Tragedy of the Suppliants, the King of Argos, addressing a number of the daughters of Danaus, on their coming from Egypt, says, “If the sons of Egypt exercise controul over you, maintaining that they are authorised to do so by the law of the state, as being the nearest allied by blood, who can resist them?

For once Adrastus fled from bold-thinking Amphiaraus and terrible civil strife, from his ancestral home, Argos;

Truly, the song of victory existed long ago, even before the quarrel arose between Adrastus and the race of Cadmus.

But we will wake the shouting lyre and the flute in honor of the very pinnacle of horse-contests, which Adrastus established for Phoebus by the streams of the Asopus.

— Not even if you should speak of Adrastus son of Talaus, or of Tantalus, or of Pelops, should I be vexed, if I am going to become better for it.

his piety toward the gods in connexion with the supplications of Adrastus and the children of Heracles when, by defeating the Peloponnesians in battle, he saved the lives of the children, and to Adrastus he restored for burial, despite the Thebans, the bodies of those who had died beneath the walls of the Cadmea;

Having heard this message, those who were then in authority at Thebes came to a decision which was in harmony neither with the opinion which some people have of them nor with their previous resolution;

When our people heard this plea, they let no time go by but at once dispatched ambassadors to Thebes to advise her people that they be more reverent in their deliberations regarding the recovery of the dead and that they render a decision which would be more lawful than that which they had previously made, and to hint to them also that the Athenians would not countenance their transgression of the …

But how pre-eminent our city stood in war at that time—for it was with the desire to show this that I discussed what happened at Thebes —is, I consider, clearly revealed to all by the circumstances which compelled the king of the Argives to become a suppliant of Athens and which so disposed the authorities at Thebes towards us that they chose of their own accord to accommodate themselves to the wo …

but long before the Trojan War (for it is only fair that those who dispute about immemorial rights should draw their arguments from that early time) there came to us the sons of Heracles and, a little before them, Adrastus, Talaus’s son, king of Argos.

for they did not do things by halves, but so completely revolutionized the fortunes of either monarch that Adrastus, who had seen fit to throw himself on our mercy, went his way, having in despite of his foes won all that he had asked, while Eurystheus, who had expected to overpower us, was himself made captive and compelled to sue for mercy;

Adrastus, on his return from the expedition against Thebes where he had met with disaster and had not by his own efforts been able to recover the bodies of those who had fallen under the Cadmean fortress, called upon our city to lend aid in a misfortune which was of universal concern, and not to suffer that men who die in battle be left unburied nor that ancient custom and immemorial law be brought to naught.

Or when you sent Adrastus back from the mighty war-shout, bereft of countless companions, to Argos, home of horses?

She proclaimed their chariot victorious on the high ground of Athens and also in Sicyon at the games of Adrastus, and thus gave them leaves of song, like these, from the singers of their time.

In Thebes, when the seven pyres of corpses had been consumed, the son of Talaus spoke in this way:

Hagesias, that praise is ready for you, which once Adrastus’ tongue rightly spoke for the seer Amphiaraus, son of Oicles, when the earth swallowed up him and his shining horses.

Yet Polyneices, when laid low, left behind him a son, Thersander, honored in youthful contests and in the battles of war, a scion to defend the house of the descendants of Adrastus.

And he who suffered in the earlier disaster, the hero Adrastus, now has the tidings of a better bird of omen.

Well then, if the mellifluous Adrastus or Pericles heard of the excellent accomplishments which we just enumerated, brachylogies and figurative speech and all the other things we said we must bringto the light and examine, do we suppose they would, like you and me, be so ill-bred as to speak discourteously of those who have written and taught these things as the art of rhetoric?

For when I came to Dorian Argos, I made Adrastus my father-in-law.