Thebaid (Greek poem)

Thebaid ( Θηβαΐς ) is the title of several poetic and literary adaptations of the word circle around the Greek city of Thebes.

Fully narrated, of these today only the Thebaid in Latin Publius Papinius Statius in the 1st century AD Fragmentary have received several Greek works, so that the Epic Cycle ( Epikos kyklos ) belonging epic, whose authorship was disputed ( Homer or Antimachus of Teos ), and which told the story of the war between the two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, and was considered part of the Theban cycle. The Attic tragedians processed substances therefrom, such as Aeschylus (Thebes trilogy) and Sophocles. The ratio of the epic Thebaid of Antimachus of Colophon to kyklischen epic is hard to elicit.

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• Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed G. Kinkel, Vol 1