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... Eteocles and Polyneices , and two daughters , Ismene and Antigone . All this information is woven into the drama in its appropriate time , but as the play opens we know nothing of it . Oedipus has ruled Thebes well for years and is ...
... Eteocles and Polyneices , and two daughters , Ismene and Antigone . All this information is woven into the drama in its appropriate time , but as the play opens we know nothing of it . Oedipus has ruled Thebes well for years and is ...
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... Eteocles and Polyneices , were pledged to rule the city in alternate years , but Eteocles , who started first , refused to step down at the end of his first year . The betrayed Polyneices brought the armies of seven allied kings and ...
... Eteocles and Polyneices , were pledged to rule the city in alternate years , but Eteocles , who started first , refused to step down at the end of his first year . The betrayed Polyneices brought the armies of seven allied kings and ...
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... Eteocles and Polyneices , the Theban brothers , sons of Oedipus , which we discussed in the Greek drama . A landmark among the early secular tragedies - more properly called a melodrama - was The Spanish Tragedy , or Hieronimo Is Mad ...
... Eteocles and Polyneices , the Theban brothers , sons of Oedipus , which we discussed in the Greek drama . A landmark among the early secular tragedies - more properly called a melodrama - was The Spanish Tragedy , or Hieronimo Is Mad ...
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