person
Menoeceus
also: Menoeceus
Son of Creon of Thebes, who in obedience to an oracle killed himself at the city walls to save Thebes from the army of the Seven. An exemplum of patriotic self-sacrifice (dramatized in Euripides's Phoenissae).
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.116 Menoeceus is not passed over
Menoeceus, son of Creon of Thebes, who killed himself at the city walls in obedience to an oracle that his death would save Thebes from the Seven. Another exemplum of patriotic self-immolation.