the sons and descendants of the Grecian heroes who were killed in the first Thibetan war. The war of the Epigoni is famous in ancient history. It was undertaken ten years after the first. The sons of those that had perished in the first war, resolved to avenge the death of their fathers, and marched against Thebes, under the command of Thersander; or, according to others, of Alcmaeon the son of Amphiarus, about 1307 years before Christ. The Argives were assisted by the Corinthians, the people of Messenia, Arcadia, and Megara. The Thebans had engaged all their neighbours in their quarrel, as in one common cause. These two hostile armies met and engaged on the banks of the Clissas. The fight was obstinate and bloody, but victory declared for the Epigoni, and some of the Thebans fled to Illyricum with Leodamas their general, while others retired into Thebes, where they were soon besieged, and forced to surrender. In this war Ajax was the only one who was killed, and his father Adrastus was the only one who escaped alive in the first war. This whole war, as Pausanias observes, was written in verse; and Callimachus, who quotes some of the verses, attributes them to Homer, which opinion has been adopted by many writers. "For my part (continues the geographer), I own, that next to the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, I have never seen a finer poem." The descendants of the veteran Macedonians, who served under Alexander the Great, and who had children by Asiatic women, were also called Epigoni. (Justin.)