Chapter Enfield to Epigoniad of E by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Epidaurus (That God in), Æs culapius, son of Apollo, who was worshipped in Epidaurus, a city of Peloponnesus. Being sent for to Rome during a plague, he assumed the form of a serpent.—Livy: Nat. Hist., xi.; Ovid: Metaph., xv.

Never since of serpent kind
Lovelier, not those that in Illyria changed
Hermionê and Cadmus, or the god
In Epidaurus.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, ix. 507 (1665).

(Cadmus and his wife Harmonia [Hermione] left Thebes and migrated into Illyria, where they were changed into serpents because they happened to kill a serpent belonging to Mars.)

Ephialtes , one of the giants who made war upon the gods. He was deprived of his left eye by Apollo, and of his right eye by Herculês.

Epigoni, seven youthful warrior s, sons of the seven chiefs who laid siege to Thebes. All the seven chiefs (except Adrastos) perished in the siege; but the seven sons, ten years later, took the city and razed it to the ground. The chiefs and sons were: (1) Adrastos, whose son was Ægialeus ; (2) Polynikês, whose son was Thersander; (3) Amphiaraos , whose son was Alkmæon (the chief); (4) Tydeus , whose son was Diomêdês; (5) Kapaneus , whose son was Sthenelos; (6) Parthenopæos, whose son was Pro machos; (7) Mekistheus , whose son was Euryalos.

(Æschylos has a tragedy on The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. There are also two epics, one The Thebaïd of Statius, and The Epigoni, probably by one of the Cyclic poets of Greece.)

Epigoniad (The), called “the Scotch Iliad,” by W illiam Wil kie (1757). This is the tale of the Epigoni or seven sons of the seven chieftains who laid siege to Thebes. The tale is this: When Œdipus abdicated, his two sons agreed to reign alternate years; but at the expiration of the first year, the elder son (Eteoclês) refused to give up the throne. Whereupon the younger brother (Polynikês) interested six Grecian chiefs to espouse his cause, and the allied armies laid siege to Thebes, without success. Subsequently, the seven sons of the old chiefs went against the city to avenge the deaths of their fathers, who had fallen in the former siege. They succeeded in taking the city. and in placing Thersander on the throne, (For the names of the sons, see above, Epigoni.) The hero of the Epigoniad is Diomed, the herione Cassandra, and the tale runs through nine books.