Polyneices · Atlas

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PhoenissaeClassical · Greek

Exiled younger son of Oedipus and Jocasta who returns with an Argive army to reclaim the Theban throne from his brother Eteocles.

Eteocles:

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Eteocles:

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Eteocles:

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AntigoneClassical · Greek

Son of Oedipus and brother of Antigone, killed in the attack on Thebes and denied burial by Creon as a traitor.

Guard:

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Chorus:

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Has not Creon destined our brothers, the one to honored burial, the other to unburied shame?

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Oedipus at ColonusClassical · Greek

Oedipus' elder son, dispossessed of the Theban throne and allied with Argos for war.

For then neither would he who now holds the scepter and the throne survive, nor would the exile ever return;

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And the younger son has stripped the elder, Polyneices, of the throne, and has driven him from his fatherland.

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Oedipus:

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OlympianClassical · Greek

Son of Oedipus, one of the warring brothers destroyed by the Erinys, whose son Thersander survived to continue the line leading to Theron.

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.

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ChrestomathyLate Antiquity · Greek

Father of Thersander, mentioned in identifying his slain son.

But Telephus comes to its defence and kills Thersander, the son of Polyneices, and is himself wounded by Achilles.

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