the other son of Oedipus (The Thebaid)

Role: son of Oedipus · First appears: The Thebaid

Life events

• Oedipus cursed his sons to never divide his goods in brotherhood and to suffer continual war.(The Thebaid)
  • With: Oedipus Polyneices
  • “great misery fell on his heart, and he straight-way called down bitter curses there in the presence of both his sons. And the avenging Fury of the gods failed not to hear him as he prayed that they might never divide their father’s goods in loving brotherhood, but that war and fighting might be ever the portion of them both.”
• Oedipus prayed that each son would die by his brother’s hand.(The Thebaid)
  • With: Oedipus Polyneices
  • “So he prayed to Zeus the king and the other deathless gods that each might fall by his brother’s hand and go down into the house of Hades.”

The Thebaid

• siblings with Polyneices “And the avenging Fury of the gods failed not to hear him as he prayed that they might never divide their father’s goods in loving brotherhood, but that war and fighting might be ever the portion of them both.”

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