Epigoni (epic)

Epigoni (

According to one source, the epic extended to 7,000 lines of verse.[2] It told the story of the last battle for Thebes by the Epigoni, the children of the heroes who had previously fought for the city. Only the first line is now known:

Now, Muses, let us begin to sing of younger men ...^[3]

Additional references, without verbal quotations, suggest that the myth of the death of

The story of the Epigoni was afterwards told again in the form of a tragedy by Sophocles, Epigoni.

References

Select editions and translations

Critical editions

• Kinkel, G. (1877), [Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta], vol. 1, Leipzig{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Allen, T.W. (1912), Homeri opera. Tomus V: Hymni, Cyclus, Fragmenta, Margites, Batrachomyomachia, Vitae, Oxford,
  ISBN 0-19-814534-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  ).
• Bernabé, A. (1988), Poetae epici Graecae, vol. pars i, Leipzig,
  ISBN 978-3-598-71706-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  ).
• Davies, M. (1988), Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta, Göttingen,
  ISBN 978-3-525-25747-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  ).

• Evelyn-White, H.G. (1936), [Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica],
  ISBN 978-0-674-99063-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  ). (The link is to the 1st edition of 1914.) English translation with facing Greek text; now obsolete except for its translations of the ancient quotations.
• West, M.L. (2003), Greek Epic Fragments, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
  ISBN 978-0-674-99605-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  ). Greek text with facing English translation

• Davies, M. (1989), Greek Epic Cycle, London,
  ISBN 978-1853990397{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  ).