See also:

• EPIGONI (" descendants ")

EPIGONI (" descendants ")  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, the sons of the seven heroes who fought against See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes (see ADRASTUS) . Ten years later, to avenge their fathers, the See also:

• EPIGONI (" descendants ")

Epigoni undertook a second expedition, which was completely successful . Thebes was forced to surrender and razed to the ground . In See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early times the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of the Epigoni was a favourite subject of epic See also:

• POETRY

poetry . The See also:

• TERM

term is also applied to the descendants of the See also:

• DIADOCHI (Gr. &aUxeo-Oat, to receive from another)

Diadochi, the successors of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander the See also:

• GREAT

Great .