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.
To the gates of Proetus came the prophet Amphiaraus, bringing the victims on a chariot;
Next lord Hippomedon came marching to the Ogygian gates with this device in the middle of his shield:
At the Homoloian gates Tydeus had his post, a lion’s skin with shaggy mane upon his shield, while the Titan Prometheus bore a torch in his right hand, to fire the town.
Antigone
The fortified portals of Thebes where the Argive captains attacked and were defeated.
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.
he gaped around our sevenfold portals with spears thirsting for blood;