Definitions for Eteocles

Eteocles E·te·o·cles

Spelling: [ih-tee-uh-kleez]
IPA: /ɪˈti əˌkliz/

Eteocles is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in Eteocles (ceeelost).

Definitions for Eteocles

noun

  1. a son of Oedipus and the brother of Polynices, by whom he was slain. Compare Seven against Thebes (def 1).

Examples for Eteocles

Were not Eteocles and Polynices born of the same mother and of the same father?

Eteocles refused, however, to relinquish the throne; and with the help of the soldiers, drove Polynices out of the city.

Here Tydeus, having gone to Thebes, finds a solemn banquet proceeding in the palace of Eteocles.

Polynikes was in the wrong, and was forced to leave Thebes, while Eteocles remained.

And Eteocles and Polyneices,4 were they not children of the same mother and the same father?

My son, Eteocles, not every ill is added to age, but experience has it in its power to evince more wisdom than youth.

But Eteocles began, standing on the lofty turret, having commanded to proclaim silence to the army.

She sends for Eteocles in the hope of reconciling her two sons.

But Eteocles being violent and fierce from having possessed the empire, Jocasta could not reconcile her children.

Accordingly Polynices and Eteocles met face to face, and fought so fiercely that both of them were killed.

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