Capaneus married Evadne, who immolated herself on his funeral pyre after he was struck down at Thebes. Their son Sthenelus later fought with the Epigoni and at Troy.
Evadne threw herself onto Capaneus's funeral pyre at Eleusis after learning of his death at Thebes, becoming a paradigm of wifely devotion in Euripides's Suppliants.
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