Capaneus

Family: Argos · Role: leader · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.6

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Capaneus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Capaneus) · The Divine Comedy (as Capaneus)

Life events

• Zeus kills Capaneus with a thunderbolt.(Apollodorus, Library 3.6)
  • With: Zeus
  • “Capaneus, seizing a ladder, was climbing up it to the walls, when Zeus smote him with a thunderbolt.”
• Evadne throws herself onto Capaneus's burning pyre and dies with him.(Apollodorus, Library 3.7)
  • With: Evadne Iphis
  • “And when the pyre of Capaneus was burning, his wife Evadne, the daughter of Iphis, thew herself on the pyre, and was burned with him.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.6

• parent: Hipponous “Capaneus, son of Hipponous;”
• with Zeus (Zeus killed Capaneus with a thunderbolt.) “when Zeus smote him with a thunderbolt.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.7

• married with Evadne “his wife Evadne, the daughter of Iphis”
• child: Sthenelus “Sthenelus, son of Capaneus”

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