Capaneus
mythological figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 10 anchored passages
in the texts
Phoenissae
Argive captain notorious for his arrogant boasts against Thebes, viewed from the walls by Antigone.
This is the man who says he will give the Theban girls as captives of his spear to the women of Mycenae, to Lerna’s trident, and the waters of Amymone, dear to Poseidon, when he has them enslaved.
Capaneus?
put to sleep his presumptuous boasting!
Suppliants
One of the Seven chieftains against Thebes, killed by Zeus's thunderbolt for boasting he would sack the city against the god's will.
I was the servant of Capaneus, whom Zeus with scorching bolt to ashes burnt.
Verily then it would seem Capaneus was unjustly blasted by the thunderbolt and charred upon the ladder he had raised against our gates, swearing he would sack our town, whether the god would or no;
Lo, here upon the rock, father, o’er the pyre of Capaneus, like some bird I hover lightly, in my wretchedness.
Oedipus at Colonus
Warrior among the Argive allies who boasts he will burn Thebes.
while Capaneus, the fifth, boasts that he will burn Thebes to the ground with fire;