person
Evadne
Daughter of Iphis, wife of Capaneus, who threw herself onto her husband's funeral pyre.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §3.1 daughter of Iphis
Evadne, wife of Capaneus, who threw herself into his funeral flames.
- Sorrows §4.3 Evadne
The wife who threw herself on the pyre of the thunder-struck Capaneus; a model of a wife loyal to a husband destroyed by 'fire.'
- Sorrows §5.14 daughter of Iphis
Evadne, daughter of Iphis, who 'dared to go onto the kindled pyres' of her husband Capaneus.