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ERIPHYLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 745 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERIPHYLE , in See also:

Greek See also:mythology, See also:sister of Adrastus and wife of See also:Amphiaraus. Having been bribed by Polyneices with the necklace of See also:Harmonia, she persuaded her See also:husband to take See also:part in the expedition of the Seven against See also:Thebes, although he knew it would prove fatal to him. Before setting out, the seer charged his sons to slay their See also:mother as soon as they heard of his See also:death. The attack on Thebes was repulsed, and during the See also:flight the See also:earth opened and swallowed up Amphiaraus together with his See also:chariot. His son See also:Alcmaeon, as he had been bidden, slew his mother, and was driven from See also:place to place by the See also:Erinyes, seeking See also:purification and a new See also:home (See also:Apollodorus iii. 6. 7).

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