Adrastus

Role: person who fled from Thebes · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

Adrastus fled from Thebes wearing miserable garments and took black-maned Areion with him. In Thebaid, he is identified as the son of Talaus; The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae names Argea as his daughter, who came with others to the funeral of Oedipus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Adrastus fled from Thebes wearing miserable garments and took black-maned Areion with him.(The Thebaid · 📍 Thebes)
  • “Adrastus fled from Thebes ‘wearing miserable garments, and took black-maned Areion with him.’”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

• child: Argea “Argea the daughter of Adrastus came with others to the funeral of Oedipus.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100

• child: Argea “Argeia the daughter of Adrastus”

The Thebaid

• parent: Talaus “But when the seven dead had received their last rites in Thebes, the Son of Talaus lamented and spoke thus among them:”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.