Editing Adrastus (section)

==Iconography==
Adrastus appears in vase painting as early as the late 6th century BC. A [[Chalcis|Chalcidian]] [[calyx krater]] (c. 530 BC) depicts the arrival scene of the exiled princes Polynices and Tydeus at Adrastus' palace.  On the right Adrastus (identified by inscription) reclines on a couch, with a woman (his wife?) standing beside him. They are both looking to the left where Tydeus (also named) and another man (presumed to be Polynices) are sitting on the ground with their mantles wrapped around them, with two women conversing standing over them (Adrastus' daughters?).<ref>Gantz, p. 509.</ref>

Pausanias reports seeing Adrastus depicted on the [[Amyclae]] [[Throne of Apollo]] (6th century BC), along with [[Tydeus]], stopping a fight between [[Amphiaraus]] and "Lycurgus the son of Pronax".<ref>Gantz, pp. 511&ndash;512; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.18.12 3.18.12]. The scene might refer either to the Seven setting out from Argos, or to their stop in [[Nemea]]</ref> The same scene seems to have been depicted on a shield-strap from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] (B 1654),<ref>Gantz, p. 511.</ref> as well as on a fragment from a [[Laconia]]n cup by the Hunt Painter.<ref>Gantz, p. 512.</ref>

Adrastus appears on an [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]] gem from the first half of the 5th century BC (Berlin:Ch GI 194). With Adrastus are four of the Seven champions: Parthenopaeus, Amphiaraus, Polynices and Tydeus. Adrastus and Tydeus are standing, in arms, with the rest seated.<ref>Gantz, p. 515.</ref> Pausanias also describes seeing a monument (c. 450s BC?) at [[Delphi]] which depicted the Seven, and included Adrastus.<ref>Gantz, p. 516; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.10.3 10.10.3].</ref>