Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Epigoni.html" title="Facts and information about Epigoni">Epigoni</a>

Give this article a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon

Epigoni

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008 | Copyright

Epigoni , in Greek legend, the sons of the Seven against Thebes , who avenged the death of their fathers. Under the leadership of Adrastus and Alcmaeon, the Epigoni conquered Thebes 10 years after the Seven had fought alongside Polynices for the throne of Thebes. The Epigoni gave the kingdom to Thersander, son of Polynices.

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

"Epigoni." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2010 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"Epigoni." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2010). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Epigoni.html

"Epigoni." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2010 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Epigoni.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Saleem gives his all in Epigoni Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail Joe Lee July 18, 2006 700+ words ...musician. According to the Kamus Dewan, however, the word epigoni refers to someone who carries on and further develops the works...Ilusi, Bumiputera Rockers and Lefthanded. His new album, Epigoni, not only pays tribute to artistes of his generation, but...
	Diary Magazine article from: The Spectator Meades, Jonathan March 31, 2001 700+ words ...for his naiad's sail. Yea, though. . . . ' I'm presently writing a telly film about Surrealism, its precursors, its epigoni, its example. With a tyro's enthusiasm (but not much else), I am ransacking Oulipo's larder of compositional prescriptions...
	Snubbing the ground breakers Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail Joe Lee April 9, 2007 700+ words ...Best vocal performance in an album (male) Bob (Hantaran Hati) M. Nasir (Sang Pencinta) Reshmonu (Superfine) Saleem (Epigoni) Sean Ghazi (Sean Ghazi - Semalam) Best vocal performance in an album (female) Aishah (Kurnia) Farhan (Best of Farhan...
	La somma delle parti: un mondo a pezzi Magazine article from: Cineforum Frasca, Giampiero April 1, 2008 700+ words ...rabbiosamente insoddisfatto interpretato da Lee J. Cobb in La parola ai giurati (1957) ha trovato successivamente una serie di epigoni che sono diventati immagine di legami familiari spezzati (la foto dell'ex moglie che campeggia sul comodino come monito...
	When a critic ventures into fiction, the results are unpredictable. Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael Dirda November 20, 2005 700+ words ...may swagger across the quad, wearing their Big Man on Campus sweatshirts and smiling beneficently at besotted acolytes and epigoni, but it's all show. Long ago, as slightly disdainful graduate students, they skimmed through bound issues of the Partisan...
	Please can we have our Enlightenment back? Magazine article from: The Spectator Williams, Hywel July 7, 2007 700+ words ...masters may sound rational even when pulling a fast one. But that intuition is absent from the works of Wheen's limping epigoni, wedded as they are to a naive view of reason's progress as an inevitable ascent to be achieved by all those of goodwill...
	The Daily Website: www.shotrock.com/ Newspaper article from: The Independent - London SALLY CHATTERTON July 5, 2000 700+ words ...ONLY THE most dedicated of drinkers could possibly keep up with alcoholic trends. Tastebud-numbing vodka Redbull and its epigoni are successful newcomers onto the stage of liquid delights, absinthe has made a relatively successful comeback and, besides...
	Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi: un epigono di Goldoni? Magazine article from: Italica Fido, Franco December 22, 2005 700+ words ...Giovanni De Gamerra e il flebile ed edificante Camillo Federici, gli studiosi includono di solito De Rossi nella serie degli epigoni di Goldoni, (12) fra il piu anziano Francesco Albergati, suo amico e corrispondente, e i piu giovani Alberto Nota e Giovanni...
	The Function of The Freeman Magazine article from: Freeman Hazlitt, Henry January 1, 2006 700+ words ...was well-fed middle-class intellectuals. This description applies not only to Marx and Engels themselves, but to the epigoni, and to the literati who were chiefly responsible for parroting and popularizing the socialist doctrines. Intellectual hostility...
	Plain brilliance explained Magazine article from: The Spectator Hensher, Philip June 20, 1998 700+ words ...asks that his readers own a dictionary to understand a line like 'Epanaleptics, rhopalics, anacyclic acrostics' (`The Epigoni'), and, just as often, a biographical dictionary to follow him when he starts comparing himself `With Bradford or with...

For more facts and information, see all related premium articles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

	Epigoni Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Epigoni , in Greek legend, the sons of the Seven...leadership of Adrastus and Alcmaeon, the Epigoni conquered Thebes 10 years after the Seven...Polynices for the throne of Thebes. The Epigoni gave the kingdom to Thersander, son of...
	Tydeus Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Tydeus , in Greek legend, son of Oeneus. He was killed in the expedition of the Seven against Thebes . His son, Diomed, avenged his father's death in the expedition of the Epigoni .
	Diomedes Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of the principal Greek warriors in the Trojan War. Previously he had avenged his father's death in the expedition of the Epigoni against Thebes. 2 A Thracian king, son of Ares and Cyrene. He was killed during the eighth labor of Hercules while trying...
	Vengeance Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...Wester-man, 316 – 317] Electra wreaks vengeance on her father ’ s murderers. [Gk. Lit.: Electra ] Epigoni, the sons of the chiefs killed in the siege of Thebes avenge their fathers ’ deaths by razing the city. [Gk...
	Thebes Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...a Mycenaean city. Thebes is rich in associations with Greek legend and religion (see Oedipus ; the Seven against Thebes ; Epigoni ). Sometime before 1000 BC, Thebes was settled by Boeotians and rapidly replaced Orchomenus as the region's leading city...