Adrastus

, son of Talaus and Lysimache, was king of Argos. Polynices, being banished from Thebes by his brother Eteocles, fled to Argos, where he married Argia daughter of Adrastus. The king a isted his son-in-law, and marched against Thebes with an army headed by seven of his most famous generals. All perished in the war except Adrastus, who, with a few men saved from slaughter, fled to Athens, and implored the aid of These us against the The bans, who opposed the burying of the Argives slain in battle. These us went to his a istance, and was victorious. Adrastus, after a long reign, died through grief, occasioned by the death of his son Ægialeus. A temple was raised to his memory at Sicyon, where a solemn festival was annually celebrated. Homer , Iliad , bk. 5 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 480 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 ; bk. 3 , ch. 7 .— Statius , Thebiad , bks. 4 & 5.— Hyginus , fables 68, 69, & 70.— Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 39 ; bk. 8 , ch. 25 ; bk. 10 ; ch. 90 .— Hero dot us , bk. 5 , ch. 67 , . ――A peripatetic philosopher, disciple to Aristotle. It is supposed that a copy of his treatise on harmonics is preserved in the Vatican.――A Phrygian prince, who having inadvertently killed his brother, fled to Crœsus, where he was humanely received, and entrusted with the care of his son Atys. In hunting a wild boar, Adrastus slew the young prince, and in his despair, killed himself on his grave. Hero dot us , bk. 1 , ch. 35 , . ――A Lydian, who a isted the Greeks against the Persians. Pausanias , bk. 7 , ch. 5 .――A soothsayer in the Trojan war, son of Merops. Homer , Iliad , bks. 2 & 6.—The father of Eurydice, who married Ilus the Trojan. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , ch. 12 .――A king of Sicyon, who reigned four years, B.C. 1215.――A son of Hercules. Hyginus , fable 242.