Seven Against Thebes
Greek siege drama
Seven Against Thebes is a Greek myth about seven champions who attacked Thebes to restore Polynices to the throne held by his brother Eteocles.
The brothers killed each other in combat.
The story, dramatized by Aeschylus, explores themes of fate, civil war, and cursed bloodlines—it follows the doom of Oedipus's sons.
The siege of the Seven Against Thebes ended with mutual fratricide.
- sworn enemiesAdversaries committed to opposition
- ArgosHellenic city-state
- OedipusTragic Greek king
- chorusSingers performing together
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
warriors · hubris · champions · fratricidal · blood curse · shield · city gates · gates · destiny · Greek tragedy · protagonist · honor · prophecy · tragic fate · Tiresias · Zeus · divine will · polis
- Ancient PlaysAgamemnon, Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Helen
- Greek classicsHomer, Iliad, Plato, Odyssey, Aristotle
- Greek tragedytragedy, Greek tragedy, Greek tragedies, Sophocles, Aeschylus
- Theban mythsOedipus, Antigone, Creon, Jocasta, Tiresias
- ThebesCadmus, Oedipus, Antigone, Creon, Jocasta
- TragediesHamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet
dramatic genre
Seven Against ThebesThe Birds
Hitchcock's nature-attacks thriller
Old Comedy · Peace · Greek comedy · Cyclops · farce