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Eteocles and Polynices

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Eteocles and Polynices
their hatred extended to the funeral pyre where even their flames would not mingle. [Gk. Myth.: “The Seven Against Thebes” in Bénet, 917]
See : Hatred

Eteocles and Polynices
brothers battle for Theban throne. [Gk. Lit.: Seven Against Thebes]
See : Rivalry


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10) Other histrionic invocations include Giton casting Encolpius and himself as Socrates and Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium: non tam intactus Alcibiades in praeceptoris sui lectulo iacuit (128,7); Giton equaling his friend Ascyltos with Lucretia and himself posing as Tarquin (9,5); Giton hiding, like Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey, under a mattress/ram (9798); Eteocles and Polynices fighting over Thebes (80,3); Cleopatra being delivered to Ceasar in a carpet (102,10-11).
 
 
 
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