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Apparently in the oldest form of the legend it was Adrastus who persuaded the Thebans to allow the Argive heroes to be buried at Thebes (cf. Pind. Ol. vi. 15 with schol.); at any rate the grave of Tydeus was there (Paus. ix. 18. 2, quoting Il. xiv. 124, a spurious line); then the Attic tragedians, &c., made Adrastus flee to Theseus at Athens, who, whether by persuasion (Aesch. Ἐλευσίνιοι; Plut. Thes. 29; Isocr. Panath. 168-71) or by force of arms (Isoc. Paneg. 58; Euripides, Supp. 634 f.), recovered the bodies and buried them at Eleusis (Euripides, op. cit.), where their tombs were shown (Paus. i. 39. 2). Thus the story was turned into a panegyric on Athens.

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