Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Suppliants Background: Polyneices and Eteocles, sons of Oedipus, were to have shared the kingdom of Thebes, but Eteocles banished Polyneices. To regain his rights, Polyneices joined Adrastus, king of Argos, in an attack on Thebes. In the battle both Polyneices and Eteocles were killed. (See Euripides' Phoenissae.) Creon, who succeeded to the throne of Thebes, forbade the burial of Polyneices' body and the bodies of the other Argive heroes. (See Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes.) The mothers of the heroes have brought the heroes' children to Athens-famous for hospitality...
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