Editing Adrastus (section)

===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&ndash;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&mdash;although present at the battle&mdash;is not considered by Aeschylus to be one of the "Seven".<ref>Gantz, pp. 515&ndash;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&ndash;931]; [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus at Colonus]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/sophocles-oedipus_colonus/1994/pb_LCL021.553.xml 1301&ndash;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&ndash;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&ndash;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.