Editing Capaneus (section)

==Mythology==
According to the legend, Capaneus had immense strength and body size and was an outstanding warrior. He was also notorious for his arrogance. He stood just at the wall of [[Thebes (Greece)|Thebes]] during the war of the [[Seven against Thebes]] and shouted that [[Zeus]] himself could not stop him from invading it. [[Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus|Vegetius]] refers to him as the first to use ladders in a siege.<ref>[[Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus|Vegetius]], ''[[De re militari]]'' 4.21</ref> In [[Aeschylus]], he bears a shield with a man without armour withstanding fire, a torch in hand, which reads 'I will burn the city,' in token of this. While he was mounting the ladder, Zeus struck and killed Capaneus with a thunderbolt, and Evadne threw herself on her husband's funeral pyre and died.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|The Suppliants]]'' 983 ff.; [[Sophocles]], ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'' 133; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'', 9. 404; Apollodorus, 3.6.6–3.7.1; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 243; [[Philostratus of Lemnos]], ''[[Imagines (work by Philostratus)|Eikones]]'' 2.31; ''[[Ars Amatoria]]'' 3.21</ref> His story was told by [[Aeschylus]] in his play ''[[Seven Against Thebes]]'',<ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''[[Seven Against Thebes]]'' 423 ff.</ref> by [[Euripides]] in his plays ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|The Suppliants]]'' and ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'',<ref>Euripides, ''[[The Phoenician Women|Phoenissae]]'' 1172 ff.</ref> and by the Roman poet [[Statius]].<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' 10.927</ref>