Epigoni (Ancient Greek:Ἐπίγονοι,Epigonoi, "Progeny") was anearly Greek epic, a sequel to theThebaid and therefore grouped in theTheban cycle. Some ancient authors seem to have considered it a part of theThebaid and not a separate poem.^[1]

According to one source, the epic extended to 7,000 lines of verse.^[2] It told the story of the last battle forThebes by theEpigoni, 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 ofProcris^[4] and the story ofTeiresias's daughterManto^[5] formed part of theEpigoni.

The epic was sometimes ascribed toHomer, butHerodotus doubted this attribution.^[6] According to theScholia onAristophanes there was an alternative attribution to "Antimachus."^[7] This presumably meansAntimachus of Teos (8th century BC), and for this reason another verse line attributed without title to Antimachus of Teos is conjecturally thought to belong to theEpigoni.^[8] An alternative explanation for the naming of Antimachus here would be that the later epic poetAntimachus of Colophon (4th century BC) had been accused of stealing the traditionalEpigoni by incorporating its plot in his literary epicThebais.

The story of the Epigoni was afterwards told again in the form of a tragedy bySophocles,Epigoni, and in a now-lost play of the same name by Sophocles's contemporary,Astydamas.

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