Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Capăneus

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Capăneus

（Καπανεύς). Son of Hipponoüs, and one of the seven heroes who marched against Thebes. He was struck by Zeus with lightning as he was scaling the walls of Thebes, because he had dared to defy the god. While his body was burning, his wife Evadné leaped into the flames and destroyed herself. See Seven Against Thebes.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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