Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)
• Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
  Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
• Argia Helps Bury Polynices (Variant)
  Heroes — Theban / burial aftermath · Handbook / post-Sophoclean variant (Argia with Antigone)
• Thersander and the Epigoni Sack of Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / cyclic / Pausanian — Thersander as Polynices’ heir installed

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Calydon
• Mount Helicon
• Mysia
• Theban battlefield
• Thebes
• Troy

Themes

• Binding
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• War