Megareus

Family: Thebes · Role: defender · First appears: Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

Life events

• Megareus is sent to defend the Neïstian gates against the third attacker.(Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3 · 📍 Neïstian gates)
  • With: Eteocles
  • “Such would I send now; by good luck indeed He has been sent, his vaunting in his deeds, Megareus,”
• Eurydice kills herself after hearing of Haemon's death and curses Creon.(Sophocles, Antigone — Scene 5)
  • With: Eurydice Haemon Creon
  • “Wounding herself to the heart, when she had heard The loud lamented death of Haemon here.”

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.”

Also listed in Thebes — Minor Figures

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