Eteocles (son of Iphis)

Also known as: Eteocles · Family: Argos · Role: warrior, son of Iphis · First appears: Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7

Life events

• Eteocles was slain by the Theban spear.(Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7)
  • “that I may carry to his native land the corpse of my son Eteocles, slain by the Theban spear”

Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7

• parent: Iphis “Unhappy child! lo! I am come, a poor old man, with twofold sorrow in my house to mourn, that I may carry to his native land the corpse of my son Eteocles, slain by the Theban spear, and further in quest of my daughter who rushed headlong from the house, for she was the wife of Capaneus and longed with him to die.”

Also listed in Argos — Minor Figures

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