Capaneus

Also known as: Capancus · Family: Argos · Role: warrior · First appears: Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

Life events

• Eteocles assigns Polyphontes to defend the Electran gates against Capaneus.(Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3 · 📍 Electran gates)
  • With: Eteocles Polyphontes
  • “And so 'gainst him, Though very bold of speech, a man is set Of fiery temper, Polyphontes strong,”
• Polynices leads seven allied commanders and their battalions against Thebè.(Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonos — Scene 7 · 📍 Thebè)
  • With: Polynices Amphiaraos Tydeus Etéoclus Hippomedon Parthenopaeus
  • “With whose aid levying all that mighty host Of seven battalions, I have deeply sworn Either to die, or drive from Theban ground Those who such wrongs have wrought.”
• Zeus strikes Capaneus with thunder, killing him as he assaults the city walls.(Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 6)
  • With: Zeus
  • “but when he was now mounting the battlements of the walls Jupiter strikes him with his thunder; and the earth resounded, insomuch that all trembled; and his limbs were hurled, as it were by a sling, from the ladder separately from one another, his hair to heaven, and his blood to the ground, and his limbs, like the whirling of Ixion on his wheel, were carried round; and his scorched body falls to the earth.”

Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

• enemies with Polyphontes “And so 'gainst him, / Though very bold of speech, a man is set / Of fiery temper, Polyphontes strong,”
• enemies with Zeus “Threatening, equipped for work is Capaneus, / Scorning the Gods: and giving speech full play, / And in wild joy, though mortal, vents at Zeus,”

Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonos — Scene 7

• friends with Polynices “And for my firm allies, who at this hour, Seven leaders of seven bands embattled there, Encompass Thebè's plain. Amphiaráus, Foremost in augury, foremost in war, First wields his warlike spear. Next, Oeneus' son, Aetolian Tydeus; then Etéoclus Of Argive lineage; fourth, Hippomedon, Sent by his father Tálaüs, and the fifth Is Capancus,”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Aulis — Scene 2

• child: Sthenelus “Sthenelus son of Capaneus.”

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