Seven Gates of Thebes
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in the texts
Phoenissae
The seven fortified gates of Thebes, each defended by a Theban captain and assaulted by one of the seven Argive champions.
Adrastus was at the seventh gate;
Your own Polyneices led the battle against the Fountain gate;
At Electra’s gate Capaneus brought up his company, bold as Ares for the battle;
Antigone
The fortified portals of Thebes where the Argive captains attacked and were defeated.
he gaped around our sevenfold portals with spears thirsting for blood;
Shaft of the sun, fairest light of all that have dawned on Thebes of the seven gates, you have shone forth at last, eye of golden day, advancing over Dirce’s streams!
For the seven captains, stationed against an equal number at the seven gates, left behind their brazen arms in tribute to Zeus the turner of battle—all but the accursed pair who, born of one father and one mother, set against each other their spears, both victorious, and who now share in a common death.