Epigoni

Epigoni (Greek: Ἐπίγονοι, Epigonoi "The Progeny") was an early Greek epic, a sequel to the Thebaid and therefore grouped in the Theban cycle. Some ancient authors seem to have considered it a part of the Thebaid and not a separate poem. According to one source the epic extended to 7,000 lines of verse. It told the story of the last battle for Thebes by the Epigoni ("the progeny, the next generation"), the children of the heroes who had previously... more

Epigoni (Greek: Ἐπίγονοι, Epigonoi "The Progeny") was an early Greek epic, a sequel to the Thebaid and therefore grouped in the Theban cycle. Some ancient authors seem to have considered it a part of the Thebaid and not a separate poem. According to one source the epic extended to 7,000 lines of verse. It told the story of the last battle for Thebes by the Epigoni ("the progeny, the next generation"), the children of the heroes who had previously fought for the city. Only the first line is now known: Additional references, without verbal quotations, suggest that the myth of the death of Procris and the story of Teiresias's daughter Manto formed part of the Epigoni. The epic was sometimes ascribed to Homer, but Herodotus doubted this attribution. According to the Scholia on Aristophanes there was an alternative attribution to "Antimachus". This presumably means Antimachus of Teos, and for this reason another verse line attributed without title to Antimachus of Teos is conjecturally... less