The Seven (play)
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The Seven is a 2005 musical written and composed by Will Power. Before its 2006 premiere as a two-act play at New York Theatre Workshop, the work had been developed in San Francisco as a one-act prese
The Seven
Polynices
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In Greek mythology, Polynices was the son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia, and the brother of Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene. When Oedipus discovered that he had killed his father and marr
The Seven (play)
…modernized version of the Greek tragedy, Seven Against Thebes written in 467 BC by Aeschylus, which relates a story about King Oedipus' sons, Eteocles and Polynices fighting to gain control over the city of Thebes. Power set his re-working of the play in a contemporary American urban setting, and used rhyming…
Etruscan funerary urn with the deaths of Eteocles and Polynices in polychrome terracotta, 3rd century BC from the tomb of the Cumni in Santa Mustiola.
Eteocles and Polynices, copy of mural in François Tomb from Vulci made in 4th century BC
Antigone on the side of Polynices by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, 1868.