Seven Against Thebes
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The Seven against Thebes is a mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus (467 BCE) concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes headed by Eteocles and his supporters. The same story is told in Euripides' Phoenician Women (ca 409 BCE).
An early telling was contained in the lost Greek ''Thebaid'', an epic poem that was regarded as forming part of a Theban Cycle, which discerning critics by the fifth...
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