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== Mythology == The ''[[Iliad]]'' refers to Adrastus as king of [[Sicyon]],<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.546-2.580 2.572], see also [[Pindar]], ''Nemean'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.99.xml 9.11]; [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.67 5.67]; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.107.xml 2.179], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.209.xml 4.49]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.6.6 2.6.6].</ref> but does not explain how a son of the [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argive]] king Talaus, came to rule Sicyon. However, later sources tell of a dispute, of some sort, between the descendants of Bias and his brother [[Melampus]]—two of the most powerful families in the [[Argolid]]—involving Adrastus, the grandson of Bias, and [[Amphiaraus]], the son of [[Oicles]], a grandson of Melampus.<ref>For a discussion of the sources for Adrastus' dispute with Amphiaraus, see Gantz, pp. 506–508. For a discussion of the dynastic history of the [[Argolid]], see also Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA332 pp. 332–335].</ref> According to [[Pindar]], at one time the sons of Talaus ruled Argos but were "overpowered by discord" and Adrastus fled Argos and went to [[Sicyon]] to escape Amphiaraus, and that during his reign there, he founded the Sicyonian games.<ref>Gantz, p. 507; Race 1997a, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.97.xml pp. 96–97]; Tripp, s.v. Adrastus (1); [[Pindar]], ''Nemean'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.99.xml 9.8–14]. According to [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.67 5.67], the Sicyonian games were founded by [[Cleisthenes of Sicyon]]. See also [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.6.6 2.6.6], which has Adrastus fleeing to Polybus at Sicyon, and becoming king when Polybus died.</ref> Pindar does not say what circumstances caused Adrastus to flee from Argos to Sicyon, or how he became its king, but later sources do.<ref>Gantz, pp. 507–508.</ref> According to one version, after Adrastus' brother Pronax, who was king of Argos, died, Adrastus fled to Sicyon, where his mother's father Polybus was king, and eventually inherited the Sicyonian throne.<ref>Gantz, p. 507; Schol. Pindar ''Nemean'' 9.30 [= Menaichmos of Sikyon ''[[FGrHist]]'' 131 F 10]. Compare [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.67 5.67], which says that Adrastus' maternal grandfather Polybus died without an heir, and bequeathed the kingship to Adrastus.</ref> While according to another, Adrastus fled to Sicyon after Amphiaraus killed Talaus, and got the throne by marrying Polybus' daughter.<ref>Gantz, pp. 507–508; ''[[Thebaid (Greek poem)|Thebaid]]'' fr. 7* West, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_epic_fragments_theban_cycle_thebaid/2003/pb_LCL497.49.xml pp. 48, 49] [= Schol. Pindar ''Nemean'' 9.30b].</ref> In any case, Adrastus became king of Sicyon. Then, according to Pindar, Adrastus (and his brothers) were able to effect a reconciliation with Amphiaraus by giving him their sister [[Eriphyle]] in marriage, and Adrastus was able to return to Argos and assume the Argive throne.<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Nemean'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.99.xml 9.13–17].</ref> Adrastus was the owner of the fabulously fast horse [[Arion (mythology)|Arion]],<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:23.319-23.350 23.346–7]; [[Antimachus]] (apud [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.25.9 8.25.9]); [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.349.xml 6.314]; [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''[[Posthomerica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/quintus_smyrnaeus-fall_troy/2018/pb_LCL019.237.xml 4.569–573].</ref> who was the offspring of [[Posidon]] and [[Demeter]] when they mated in horse form.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA101 p. 101]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.8 3.6.8]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.25.5 8.25.5], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.25.7 8.25.7].</ref> Adrastus was given Arion by [[Heracles]],<ref>Schol. (D) ''Iliad'' 23.346 (see ''[[Thebaid (Greek poem)|Thebaid]]'' fr. 11 West, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_epic_fragments_theban_cycle_thebaid/2003/pb_LCL497.53.xml pp. 52–55]); [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.25.10 8.25.10]. Compare with [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.349.xml 6.311–314] and [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''[[Posthomerica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/quintus_smyrnaeus-fall_troy/2018/pb_LCL019.237.xml 4.569–573], which say that Arion was given to Adrastus by the gods.</ref> and the horse saved Adrastus' life during the war of the Seven against Thebes, when all the other champions of the expedition were killed.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA102 p. 102], [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA321 p. 321]; Gantz, p. 517; ''[[Thebaid (Greek poem)|Thebaid]]'' fr. 11 West, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_epic_fragments_theban_cycle_thebaid/2003/pb_LCL497.53.xml pp. 52–55]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.8 3.6.8]; [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.2.11 9.2.11]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.25.8 8.25.8]; Pancrates of Alexandria (Page, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/select_papyri_poetry_elegiac_hexameter_poems/1941/pb_LCL360.519.xml pp. 518, 519]); compare with [[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.301.xml fr. 757.116–118]; ''[[Greek Anthology]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_anthology_7/1917/pb_LCL068.237.xml 7.431].</ref> Adrastus seems to have had a reputation as a skillful speaker.<ref>Grimal, s.v. Adrastus; [[Tyrtaeus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/tyrtaeus-fragments/1999/pb_LCL258.59.xml fr. 12.8]; [[Plato]], ''[[Phaedrus (dialogue)|Phaedrus]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg012.perseus-eng1:269a 269a] [= ''Thebaid'' fr. 4* West, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_epic_fragments_theban_cycle_thebaid/2003/pb_LCL497.47.xml pp. 46, 47]].</ref> ===Seven against Thebes=== {{main|Seven against Thebes}} The war of the Seven against Thebes resulted from a quarrel between [[Oedipus]]' sons [[Polynices]] and [[Eteocles]] over the kingship of Thebes, which left Eteocles on the throne, and Polynices in exile.<ref>For discussions of the quarrel between Polynices and Eteocles, see Gantz, pp. 502–506; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA315 pp. 315–317].</ref> One night, Polynices arrived at Adrastus' palace seeking shelter. He found a place to sleep, but soon after [[Tydeus]], the exiled son of the [[Calydon]]ian king [[Oeneus]], also arrived seeking shelter, and the two began to fight over the same space. When Adrastus discovered Polynices and Tydeus fighting like wild beasts (or in later accounts when he saw that Polynices wore the hyde of a lion and that Tydeus wore the Hyde of a Boar, or that they had those animals on their shields), he remembered an oracle of [[Apollo]] that said he should marry his daughters to a lion and a boar. So Adrastus gave his daughters, [[Argia (daughter of Adrastus)|Argia]] to Polynices, and [[Deipyle]] to Tydeus, and promised to restore them to their kingdoms, beginning with Polynices.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA316 pp. 315–317]; Gantz, pp. 508–510; Tripp, s.v. Seven against Thebes A; [[Euripides]], ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|The Suppliants]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-suppliant_women/1998/pb_LCL009.27.xml 131–154], ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-phoenician_women/2002/pb_LCL011.253.xml 408–429]; ''Hypsipyle'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.283.xml fr. 753c]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#65 4.65.1–3]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 69; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.69.xml 1.390–512], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.105.xml 2.152–205]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.1 3.6.1], with Polynices and Tydeus wearing the pelts of a lion and boar in Hyginus and Statius, and with a lion and a boar on their shields in Apollodorus. The daughters, unnamed in Euripides, are named in Diodorus, Hyginus, Statius, and Apollodorus.</ref> Adrastus proceeded to assemble a large Argive army to attack Thebes, appointing seven champions to be its leaders. These became known as the Seven against Thebes. One of those chosen, the seer [[Amphiaraus]], had foreseen that the expedition was doomed to fail, and that all of the champions but Adrastus would die, and so refused to join. But when Polynices bribed Amphiaraus' wife [[Eriphyle]] to tell her husband to join the expedition, he was forced to obey because of a promise Amphiaraus had made to allow his wife, who was also Adrastus' sister, to settle any disputes between the two men.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA317 pp. 317–318]; Gantz, pp. 508, 510; Tripp, s.v. Seven against Thebes B; [[Pindar]], ''Nemean'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.101.xml 9.13–17]; [[Sophocles]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/sophocles-fragments_known_plays/1996/pb_LCL483.75.xml fr. 187 Lloyd-Jones]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#65 4.65.5–6]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.2 3.6.2].</ref> Adrastus and his army were forced to stop for water at Nemea, where they became involved in the death of the child-hero [[Opheltes]]. There Adrastus held funeral games in Opheltes' honor, in which he won the horse race with his horse Arion. These games were said to have been the origin of the [[Nemean Games]].<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA318 p. 318]; Gantz, pp. 510–512; Tripp, s.vv. Adrastus (1), Opheltes, Seven against Thebes C; [[Pindar]], ''Nemean'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.95.xml 8.50–51], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-nemean_odes/1997/pb_LCL485.115.xml 10.26–28] with Races' note 13; [[Bacchylides]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0199.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9 9.10–24]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.4 3.6.4]. For the horse race see also [[Propertius]], ''Elegies'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/propertius-elegies/1990/pb_LCL018.211.xml 2.37–38]; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.349.xml 6.301–530] (which has Arion being driven by Adrastus' son-in law [[Polynices]], finishing first, but pulling an empty chariot, Polynices having been thrown off along the way). Compare with [[Callimachus]], fr. 223 Trypanis and Whitman [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/callimachus-iambi/1973/pb_LCL421.155.xml?rskey=H0uMeJ&result=1 pp. 154, 155].</ref> As the seer Amphiaraus had foretold, the expedition ended in disaster at Thebes. All of the champions perished, except for Adrastus who was saved by the speed of his divine horse Arion.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA321 p. 321]; Gantz, p. 517; ''[[Thebaid (Greek poem)|Thebaid]]'' fr. 11 West, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_epic_fragments_theban_cycle_thebaid/2003/pb_LCL497.53.xml pp. 52–55]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.8 3.6.8]; [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.2.11 9.2.11]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.25.8 8.25.8]; Pancrates of Alexandria (Page, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/select_papyri_poetry_elegiac_hexameter_poems/1941/pb_LCL360.519.xml pp. 518, 519]).</ref> According to accounts first occurring in fifth-century BC Greek tragedy, after the failed assault on Thebes, [[Creon of Thebes|Creon]], who with the death of Etecles became the new ruler of Thebes, forbade the burial of the expeditions' dead. Athenian tradition held that [[Theseus]], the king and founder-hero of [[Athens]], assisted Adrastus in recovering the bodies of his fallen comrades.<ref>Hard, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA321 321]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA322 322]; Gantz, pp. 296β297, 519–522; Tripp, s.v. Seven against Thebes E; Oldfather's note 16 to [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#65 4.65.9]; Frazer, [https://archive.org/stream/pausaniassdescr07pausgoog#page/n553/mode/2up pp. 519–520]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.7.1 3.7.1], with Frazer's note 2; [[Aeschylus]], ''Eleusinians'' (Sommerstein 2009b, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.57.xml pp. 56–57]); [[Euripides]], ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|Suppliants]]'' (Kovacs 1998, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-suppliant_women/1998/pb_LCL009.5.xml pp. 4–6]); [[Plutarch]], ''Theseus'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg001.perseus-eng2:29.4 29.4–5]. [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.27 9.27], says that, during the [[Battle of Plataea]] (479 BC), the Athenians cited the burial as one of the great achievements of Athens; compare with [[Lysias]], ''Funeral Oration'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg002.perseus-eng1:7 7–10]; [[Isocrates]] ''Panegyricus'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0010.tlg011.perseus-eng1:54 54]. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.39.2 1.39.2], reports seeing the tombs of the Seven on the road leading out of Eleusis.</ref> ===One of the "Seven"=== Prior to the fifth century BC, the number and names of the "seven" champions is uncertain.<ref>For a discussion of the identities of the seven champions see Gantz, pp. 514–517.</ref> The first certain reference to the number of champions being seven, along with a list of their names, occurs in Aeschylus' ''Seven Against Thebes''. Adrastus—although present at the battle—is not considered by Aeschylus to be one of the "Seven".<ref>Gantz, pp. 515–516; [[Aeschylus]], ''[[Seven Against Thebes]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-seven_thebes/2009/pb_LCL145.193.xml 375ff.].</ref> The same list of names is given in [[Euripides]]' ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|The Suppliants]]'', and [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Oedipus at Colonus]]''.<ref>Gantz, p. 515; [[Euripides]], ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|The Suppliants]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-suppliant_women/1998/pb_LCL009.99.xml 857–931]; [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus at Colonus]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/sophocles-oedipus_colonus/1994/pb_LCL021.553.xml 1301–1325].</ref> However, Euripides gives a slightly different list in ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'', with Adrastus (instead of Eteoclus) as one of the Seven, and this list will be followed by the Greek historian [[Diodorus Siculus]], the mythographers [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]] and [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], and the Latin poet [[Statius]].<ref>Gantz, p. 516; [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-phoenician_women/2002/pb_LCL011.331.xml 1104–1138]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#65 4.65.7]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.3 3.6.3], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.6 3.6.6]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 70; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.209.xml 4.32–250].</ref> In ''The Phoenician Women'' and Apollodorus (as in the ''Seven Against Thebes'') each of the Seven is assigned to one of the seven gates of Thebes, with Adrastus being assigned the "Seventh" gate, in ''The Phoenician Women'', and the "Homoloidian" gate in Apollodorus. ===Second war against Thebes=== {{main|Epigoni}} Ten years after the failed expedition against Thebes, to avenge their father's deaths, the sons of the fallen Seven, who were called the [[Epigoni]] ("Afterborn"), marched again on Thebes. Adrastus accompanied them on this second Theban expedition, called the war of the Epigoni.<ref>Hard, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA325 325]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA326 326]; Tripp, s.v. Adrastus (1); [[Pindar]], ''Pythian'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-pythian_odes/1997/pb_LCL056.343.xml 8.39–55]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.7.2 3.7.2–3] (which says the second war came ten tears after the first, but does not mention Adrastus); [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.43.1 1.43.1], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.9.2 9.9.2]. For a discussion of the Epigoni, see Gantz, pp. 522–525.</ref> This time (according to Pindar) the omens foretold success for the expedition, but death for Adrastus' son Aegialeus.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA326 p. 326]; Gantz, p. 522; [[Pindar]], ''Pythian'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-pythian_odes/1997/pb_LCL056.343.xml 8.39–55].</ref> According to [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], as Adrastus was the only one of the Seven to survive the first expedition, his son Aegialeus was the only one of the Epigoni to die in the second.<ref>Tripp, s.v. Adrastus (1); [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'', 71, which says that Aegialeus was the only one of the Epigoni to die "because his father had survived, he gave up his life for his father's". However [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.19.2 9.19.2], implies a tradition in which other of the Epigoni also died, see Gantz, p. 524.</ref> ===Death=== According to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], the [[Megara|Megarians]] said that Adrastus, leading the Argive army home after taking Thebes, died at [[Megara]] of old age and grief for the death of his son, and was honored there.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA327 p. 327]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.43.1 1.43.1].</ref> However [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] says that, in accordance with an oracle of [[Apollo]], Adrastus and his son Hipponous killed themselves by throwing themselves into a fire.<ref>''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', s.v. Adrastus; Tripp, s.v. Adrastus (1); [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 242.</ref>
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