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EPIGONI (" descendants ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 689 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPIGONI (" descendants ") , in See also:Greek See also:legend, the sons of the seven heroes who fought against See also:Thebes (see ADRASTUS). Ten years later, to avenge their fathers, the Epigoni undertook a second expedition, which was completely successful. Thebes was forced to surrender and razed to the ground. In See also:early times the See also:war of the Epigoni was a favourite subject of epic See also:poetry. The See also:term is also applied to the descendants of the See also:Diadochi, the successors of See also:Alexander the See also:Great.

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