Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Greek Tragedy V: Seven Against Thebes, Or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Or Seven Champions for Seven Gates for Seven Other Champions In which Everyone Dies, Or not Everyone, but, well, you know...


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In this episode we talk about final play in Aeschylus's Oedipus trilogy, Seven Against Thebes.

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References

Clifford Orwin, "Feminine Justice: The End of the Seven against Thebes," Classical Philology 75, no. 3 (Jul., 1980): 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1086/366565

"The Internet Classics Archive | The Seven Against Thebes By Aeschylus". Classics.Mit.Edu, http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/seventhebes.html. Accessed 6 Dec 2019.

"Polynices". En.Wikipedia.Org, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynices. Accessed 9 Dec 2019.

Tom Lehrer.  ”Oedipus Rex.”  An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Lehrer Records, 1959.

Vellacott, Philip. “Aeschylus' ‘Seven against Thebes.’” The Classical World, vol. 73, no. 4, 1979, pp. 211–219. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4349173.

Wasson, Donald. "Seven Against Thebes". Ancient History Encyclopedia, 2018, https://www.ancient.eu/Seven_Against_Thebes/.

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