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The Shield of Heracles: The Complete Poem
The Shield of Heracles (also known as The Shield of Herakles and, in the original, Aspis Herakleous) is a poem of 480 hexameter lines written by an unknown Greek poet in the style of Hesiod (lived 8th century BCE). It deals with the Greek...

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Seven Against Thebes
High terracotta Etruscan relief depicting scenes from the myth of the Seven Against Thebes. It decorated the back of the temple of the sanctuary at Pyrgi, 470-460 BCE, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome.

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Eteocles & Polynices
Eteocles and Polynices being carried away, dead, after the Battle of Thebes.
Stories from the Greek Tragedians by the Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. (1829-1912 CE)
Project Gutenberg eText 14994