Thebes — Minor Figures

9 figures from Greek Tragedy who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Lasthenes

warrior · first appears Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 4

Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 4 · enemies with Amphiaraos “Yet against him the hero Lasthenes, A foe of strangers, at the gates we'll set;”
Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 4 · with Eteocles “Yet against him the hero Lasthenes, A foe of strangers, at the gates we'll set;”

defender · first appears Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3 · parent: Creon “Megareus, Creon's son, who claims descent”
Sophocles, Antigone — Scene 5 · parent: Eurydice “She with keen knife before the altar place / Closed her dark orbs; but first lamented loud / The glorious bed of buried Megareus, / And then of Haemon; lastly clamoured forth / The curse of murdered offspring upon thee.”

father of Creon · first appears Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 4

Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 4 · child: Creon “Menœceus, of the same name with thy father”

son of Creon · first appears Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 4

Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 4 · parent: Creon “I will send thy son, Creon, Menœceus, of the same name with thy father, to bring Tiresias hither”
Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 4 · with Tiresias “Be of good cheer; for thou hast steered thy foot, Tiresias, near to thy friends; but take hold of him, my son. Since every chariot, and the foot of the aged man is used to expect the assistance of another's hand.”

ancestor of Laius · first appears Sophocles, King Oedipus — Scene 2

Sophocles, King Oedipus — Scene 2 · younger kin: Laius “And proud Agenor of the eldest time.”

father of Melanippus · first appears Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3 · child: Melanippus “And of the dragon-race that Ares spared / He as a scion grows, a native true, / E'en Melanippos;”

warrior · first appears Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 6

Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 6 · enemies with Parthenopaeus “But Periclymenus the son of the God of the Ocean stopped him in his raging, hurling at his head a stone, a wagon-load, a pinnacle rent from the battlement; and dashed in pieces his head with its auburn hair, and crushed the suture of the bones, and besmeared with blood his lately blooming cheeks; nor shall he carry back his living form to his mother, glorious in her bow, the daughter of Mænalus.”

defender · first appears Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3 · parent: Oenops “And next Hyperbios, / The stalwart son of Œnops, has been chosen,”
Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3 · enemies with Hippomedon “For man with man will fight as enemy,”

father of Hyperbios · first appears Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3 · child: Hyperbios “And next Hyperbios, / The stalwart son of Œnops, has been chosen,”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.