Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. his youth in first bloom, thick, upspringing hair. But now he makes his advance with a savage heart and a terrifying look, not at all like the maidens he’s named for.[*](Parthenopaeus maiden-faced. His mother Atalanta dwelt on Mt. Maenalus in Arcadia.)Nor does he take his stand at the gate unboasting, but wields our city’s shame on his bronze-forged