| 单词 | the seven against thebes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Seven against (also before) Thebes c. Greek Mythology. Also the Argive Seven. A group of seven military leaders raised by Oedipus's son Polynices and under the command of Adrastus, king of Argos, who fought against the city of Thebes in Boeotia when Polynices's brother Eteocles refused to share its rule with him. Often in the Seven against (also before) Thebes, translating or with reference to Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας, the title of a play by Aeschylus (first produced in 467 b.c.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > host of noble warriors douthOE douzepersc1275 the Argive Seven1646 1646 T. Blount tr. H. Estienne Art making Devises viii. 18 But..doe we not see a great resemblance of Devises, even from the time of the Theban Warre..as Aeschylus noteth, in his Tragedy, entituled, The seven before Thebes [Fr. les sept deuant Thebes], where (speaking of Capaneus) he saith, that in his Shield he had a naked man painted with a flaming Torch in his hand. 1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. ii. i. 172 A league made by the Argivi, against the Thebans, and the expedition of the seven against Thebes, prior to the Trojan war, are the most remote and renowned events recorded in their annals. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 230 War of the ‘Seven’ (under Adrastus of Argos). 2009 Classical Philol. 104 487 Death in battle is the fate of all the Argive Seven (with the exception of Adrastus, whose end is postponed until another epic). < as lemmas |
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