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Seven Against Thebes
play by Aeschylus
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example of Aeschylus’ work
- In Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes
This is the third and only surviving play of a connected trilogy, presented in 467 bc, that dealt with the impious transgressions of Laius and the doom subsequently inflicted upon his descendants. The first play seems to have shown how Laius, king…
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illustration of Eleatic principle
- In Eleaticism: Logical and linguistic approach
…his Hepta epi Thēbais (Seven Against Thebes), judged it very appropriate that Helen would have destroyed Troy, because her name—naively derived from helein (“destroy”) and naus (“ship”)—marked her as a destroyer of ships. Here nomen est omen: the language is not merely a symbol but corresponds to reality in…
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