Laodamas, last king of Thebes, led the city's defense against the Epigoni. He slew Aegialeus, son of Adrastus, before being killed or driven into exile by the victorious attackers.
The Epigoni besieged and sacked Thebes ten years after their fathers' failed assault, razing the city and carrying off its people and treasures as spoils.
The Epigoni — sons of the fallen Seven against Thebes — included Amphilochus, Sthenelus, Diomedes, and Thersander among their ranks. They successfully conquered Thebes in a second campaign, avenging their fathers' defeat.
Alcmaeon led the Epigoni as commander of the second expedition against Thebes. After the city's fall, he fulfilled his father Amphiaraus's dying command by killing his mother Eriphyle.
Adrastus, the sole survivor of the Seven, helped organize the Epigoni expedition. He died of grief upon learning his son Aegialeus had been killed during the campaign.
The Epigoni consulted Apollo's oracle at Delphi before their expedition and, after sacking Thebes, dedicated a portion of the spoils — including the prophetess Manto — to the god.
Eriphyle was bribed with the Robe of Harmonia to persuade her sons Alcmaeon and Amphilochus to join the Epigoni, just as she had earlier been bribed to send their father Amphiaraus with the Seven.
Manto was among the Theban captives taken by the Epigoni after their successful siege. She was dedicated to Apollo at Delphi as part of the victory offerings.
The Epigoni were the sons of the Seven against Thebes who mounted a second, successful expedition against Thebes a generation later, avenging their fathers' defeat and deaths.
Tiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes, died at the spring Tilphussa while fleeing the city during its destruction by the Epigoni.
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