Soon, a Theban messenger arrives bringing a message to Theseus: he is to drive
Adrastus and the mothers away, otherwise the Theban army will attack the Athenians.
(3.1.46-59) What is notable here is that while the "object of desire" in these lines is Eurydice's body and those who desire it in the play are Creon and
Adrastus, this image makes the one desiring as well as the desired Eurydice herself.
Adrastus (the nonrunaway) cannot run away but must meet Atys, has doom (ate).(50) Tragedy is nothing but the showing at the end of what is latent from the start in the unrealized (axuneton) but spoken pun.(51) One is always sounding the logos.
In keeping with Aurora's tendency toward classical nomenclature, the propulsion system has been dubbed Arion, after the mythical winged horse flown by King
Adrastus of Argos.
The only one to survive the earlier siege had been
Adrastus, king of Argos.
After the introduction, there are four chapters of this survey entitled "Narrators and Narratees," "Focalization," "Time" and "Space." Part II then provides in-depth analyses of the Aphrodite and Anchises love affair in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite; the story of Atys and
Adrastus in Herodotus' Histories (Book I); and the death of Pentheus in the messenger report from Euripides' Bacchae.
At a feast in his hall for his prospective sons-in-law Polynices and Tydeus, king
Adrastus explains the worship of Apollo at Argos by telling the story of how Psamathe, daughter of an earlier Argive king, was raped by Apollo and subsequently, in secret from her father, gave birth to a son Linus; the infant, taken to a shepherd for care, was torn apart by dogs in the wild (1.562-95).
In Greek mythology, the sister of
Adrastus and wife of Amphiaraus.