Editing Adrastus (section)

===Second war against Thebes===
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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]&ndash;[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&ndash;55]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.7.2 3.7.2&ndash;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&ndash;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&ndash;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>