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THE GREEK HEROES 133 this deed, which was nevertheless called for by sisterly love and divine law. 174. Ten years later the sons of the fallen heroes (the Epigoni), now led by the favor of the gods, marched against Thebes, took it and demolished it, and set over it as ruler Thersander, the son of Polynices. The whole expedition, however, is described by the later poets as a counterpart of the former one. Alcmaeon, the leader of the host, before setting out fulfilled the command of his father by murdering his mother to avenge him. But although Apollo himself had given his consent to this, the murderer, like Orestes, was pursued by the Erinyes until after long wanderings he finally obtained rest through a. new oracular response. locaste : Homer, Od. xi. 271 sq. ; Sophocles, Antigone 861, Oedipus Rex ; Hyginus, Fab. Ixvi., Ixvii. Oedipus : Homer, Od. xi. 271 ; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone ; Hyginus, Fab. Ixvi. ; Pope, Thebais i. 21 : At Oedipus from his disasters trace The long confusions of his guilty race ; Thebais i. 69 : Now wretched Oedipus, depriv'd of sight Leads a long death in everlasting night ; Thebais i. 336 : - His sons with scorn their eyeless father view. Eteocles : Hyginus, Fab. Ixvii. ; Sophocles, Antigone ; Aeschy- lus, Seven against Thebes 182 sq. ; Pope, Thebais i. 219. Polynices : Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone ; Hyginus, Fab. Ixvii.-lxxii. Antigone : Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 862 ; Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus ; Hyginus, Fab. Ixxii. Amphiaraiis : Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 569 sq. ; Ovid, Ex Pont. iii. 1, 52: Notus humo mersis Amphiaraiis equis. Hyginus, Fab. Ixxiii,