Polynices

Polynices in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Polynices or Polyneices (Greek: Πολυνείκης, transl. Polyneíkes, "manifold strife") was the son of Oedipus and Jocasta. His wife was Argea. His father, Oedipus, was discovered to have killed his father and married his mother, and was expelled from Thebes, leaving his sons Eteocles and Polynices to rule. Because of a curse pu...

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Polyneices in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Πολυνείκης), the son of Oedipus and Iocaste, and brother of Eteocles and Antigone. (Hom. Il. 4.377; ADRASTUS.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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