Talk:Seven Against Thebes

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Contents 1 Seven against Thebes? 2 Polynices-the cause of the entire conflict? 3 Plot summary Section 4 Mythic content. 5 Corrected the plot description.

[edit] Seven against Thebes?

Were there literally only seven people fighting or seven nations? Mr. Quertee 22:16, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Seven generals of the Argive army. john k 00:25, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

That makes more sense. Thanks. Mr. Quertee 01:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Polynices-the cause of the entire conflict?

It says in the body that Polynices was the cause of the entire conflict. But wasnt it Eteoclese who broke the contract for rulling established in Oedipus' will by not giving up his turn? So then isnt Eteoclese the cause of the entire conflict? Xlegiofalco 05:32, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plot summary Section

Do we have sources or citations for the translation of the text from the play being quoted?
--> "who came back from exile, and sought to consume utterly with fire the city of his fathers," following. Aretemi 09:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mythic content.

Food for thought: The Argives are Greeks just as the Thebans are Greek. A school of thought has developed that Aeschylus calls the Argives "barbarians," "foreign-sounding," etc. in order to evoke the memory of Xerxes' sacking of Athens in 480. FWIW Ifnkovhg 05:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Corrected the plot description.

Somebody (who evidently also visited the Aeschylus article) was way off in describing the play's spurious ending. I've corrected it. The new ending of the Septem leads up to the plot of Antigone, but does not contain that plot. Big difference. Also, there is some debate (see Donald Mastronarde's Phoenissae commentary) as to whether Megareus in Aeschylus and Sophocles = Menoeceus in Euripides. I.e., in Aeschylus, Megareus dies in battle, and Sophocles is ambiguous in the matter. Menoeceus kills himself in Euripides. Megareus and Menoeceus might have been conflated at some point, but when? They are separate characters in (e.g.) Statius' Thebaid (1ct cent CE) Ifnkovhg (talk) 00:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)