The Theban Epics

by Malcolm Davies and Malcolm Davies

In antiquity, the story of the failed assault of the Seven against Thebes ranked second only to the Trojan War. But whereas the latter was immortalized by Homer's Iliad, the account of the former in the epic Thebais survives only in fragments preserved in later authors. The same is true of the Oedipodeia and Epigoni, which dealt respectively with events leading up to the Seven's campaign and with the successful assault...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674417240
• ISBN13: 9780674417243
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"