Seven Against Thebes (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
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- Author: Aeschylus
- First Published: 467
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: War, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Fate or fatalism, Greek or Roman times, Duels or dueling, Civil wars, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Thebes, ancient
Places Discussed
*Thebes (theebz). Largest city in the ancient Greek region of Boeotia. In Greek mythology, Thebes is a central location in tales of Oedipus, Antigone, Pentheus, and Teiresias and is particularly important as a location of meetings connecting mortals and the gods. Thebes had unusual connections with the East, as its founder, Cadmus, was believed to have come from Phoenicia. In drama, Thebes is often marked by archetypal conflicts between gods and humans, young and older generations, brothers, and, most notably, between self and other, inside and outside.
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Aeschylus (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Aeschylus (Drama)Aeschylus (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)Aeschylus (Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World)
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