Translation for 'Polynices' from English to Greek

Polynices {noun}

Πολυνείκης {ο}μυθολ.

• Eteocles and Polynices (played by ballet dancers) fight the single combat and kill each other.
• Published in the early 90s AD, it contains 12 books and recounts the clash of two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, over the throne of the Greek city of Thebes.
• The opera begins with Polynices and Theseus striking a pact: Polynices will marry Theseus' daughter, Eriphyle, and Theseus will help him retake the throne of Thebes, thus forging an alliance between that city and Athens.
• Polynices and Eteocles made a pact that each should rule alternately for one year at a time.
• After Oedipus leaves Thebes, his sons fight for control of it. Polynices lays siege to Thebes against his brother Eteocles.

• Aeschylus' play, "Seven Against Thebes", depicts the war and demise of Eteocles and Polynices.
• After their father's death, Polynices was to rule Thebes with his brother Eteocles on alternating years.
• Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters in the war of the Seven against Thebes.
• According to Apollodorus, Polynices and Eteocles agreed to rule Thebes in alternate years.
• King Creon, who has ascended to the throne of Thebes after the death of the brothers, decrees that Polynices is not to be buried or even mourned, on pain of death by stoning.

• Ten years after Polynices' death, the sons of the seven fallen champions gathered to launch a second assault against the city of Thebes to avenge the deaths of their fathers; they are the known as the Epigoni.