The story about Oedipus’ children. Greeks, they just cannot help themselves!
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When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who agreed to alternate the throne every year.[1] After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters (the eponymous Seven). The two brothers killed each other in single combat. Their maternal uncle, King Creon, who had ascended to the throne of Thebes, decreed that Polynices is not to be buried.
Due to the popularity of Sophocles's Antigone, the ending of Seven Against Thebes was rewritten about fifty years after Aeschylus's death.[2] Where the play (and the trilogy of which it is the last volume) was meant to end with somber mourning for the dead brothers, it instead contains the ending as follows:
Antigone, their sister, defied the order, but was caught. Creon decreed that she was to be buried alive, even though she was betrothed to his son, Haemon. The gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order, and he went to bury Polynices. However, Antigone had already hanged herself rather than starve to death. When Creon arrived at the tomb, his son, Haemon, attacked him in a grief-stricken craze before killing himself. When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of his suicide she, too, took her own life.
- Re: Seven Against Thebesposted on 10/04/2007
Susan wrote:
The story about Oedipus’ children. Greeks, they just cannot help themselves!
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and people of the rest of the world just cannot help but love them... - Re: Seven Against Thebesposted on 10/04/2007
八十一子 wrote:
Susan wrote:and people of the rest of the world just cannot help but love them...
The story about Oedipus’ children. Greeks, they just cannot help themselves!
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就是就是,I am one of those who love them....
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