Editing Adrastus (section)

====Hyginus====
In his ''[[Fabulae]]'', Hyginus gives an account of Adrastus' story, mostly in accord with earlier sources.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 68&ndash;74.</ref>  Following Bacchylides, Pindar, and Euripides, Hyginus says that Adrastus was the son of [[Talaus]], however Hyginus provides the name of a mother, [[Eurynome]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69, 70. For Adrastus as the son of Talaus, see [[Bacchylides]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0199.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9 9.19]; [[Pindar]], ''Nemean''
[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.101.xml 9.14], ''Olympian'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-olympian_odes/1997/pb_LCL056.105.xml 6.15]; and [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' 422. Compare with [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.13 1.9.13], where his mother is [[Lysimache]], the daughter of [[Abas (mythology)|Abas]]; and [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.6.6 2.6.6], where his mother is [[Lysianassa]], the daughter of [[Polybus of Sicyon|Polybus]].</ref> Following Euripides, Hyginus says that Adrastus had received an oracle of Apollo which said he would marry his daughters to a lion and a boar, and that, when Polynices, wearing the hide of a lion, and Tydeus, wearing the hide of a boar, arrived at Adrastus' court, Adrastus remembered the oracle and so married his older daughter, Argia, to Polynices, and his younger daughter Deipyle, to Tydeus.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69.1&ndash;5. The story is told in [[Euripides]], ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|The Suppliants]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-suppliant_women/1998/pb_LCL009.27.xml 131&ndash;154], ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-phoenician_women/2002/pb_LCL011.253.xml 408&ndash;423], however, Euripides makes no mention of Polynices and Tydeus wearing animal hides, he says only that Adrastus identified the two as the husbands referred to by the oracle because they fought like wild beasts.</ref> He adds that  [[Thersander (Epigoni)|Thersander]] (one of the Epigoni) was the son of Argia and Polynices, and that [[Diomedes]] (who fought at Troy, and another of the Epigoni) was the son of Deipyle and Tydeus.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69.5.</ref>

At Polynices request, Adrastus assembled an army to take back the kingship of Thebes from Eteocles. Adrastus chose "seven generals" (including himself) for the army because the walls of Thebes had seven gates.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69.6&ndash;7.</ref>  The army stops at Nemea in search of water, Opheltes is killed by a snake, Adrastus and the Seven kill the snake and establish funeral games in the child's honor.<ref>Bravo, pp. 117&ndash;118; Gantz, p. 511; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 74.</ref> At Thebes, all of the Seven die except Adrastus.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 70.</ref>