The Seven Against Thebes
E.D.A. Morshead (1883)
Aeschylus's The Seven Against Thebes (467 BC) is the surviving third play of a Theban trilogy, dramatizing the climax of the curse on the house of Oedipus. As the exiled Polynices leads a champion against each of the seven gates of Thebes, his brother Eteocles organizes the defence, until the brothers meet and kill each other, fulfilling their father's curse. Famous for its central set-piece pairing each attacking champion with a Theban defender, it is a study of war, fate, and fratricide. The translation is E.D.A. Morshead's.
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