''Epigoni'' ( grc-gre, Ἐπίγονοι, ''Epigonoi'', "Progeny") was an early Greek epic, a sequel to the '' Thebaid'' and therefore grouped in the Theban cycle. Some ancient authors seem to have considered it a part of the ''Thebaid'' and not a separate poem.

According to one source, the epic extended to 7,000 lines of verse. It told the story of the last battle for Thebes by the Epigoni, the children of the heroes who had previously fought for the city. Only the first line is now known: :Now, Muses, let us begin to sing of younger men ... Additional references, without verbal quotations, suggest that the myth of the death of Procris and the story of Teiresias's daughter Manto formed part of the ''Epigoni''. The epic was sometimes ascribed to Homer, but Herodotus doubted this attribution. According to the Scholia on Aristophanes there was an alternative attribution to "Antimachus." This presumably means Antimachus of Teos (8th century BC), and for this reason another verse line attributed without title to Antimachus of Teos is conjecturally thought to belong to the ''Epigoni''.Fragment 2 West; Clement of Alexandria, ''

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'' 6.12.7. An alternative explanation for the naming of Antimachus here would be that the later epic poet

Antimachus of Colophon Antimachus of Colophon ( el, Ἀντίμαχος ὁ Κολοφώνιος), or of Claros, was a Greek poet and grammarian, who flourished about 400 BC. Life Scarcely anything is known of his life. The Suda claims that he was a pupil of the po ...

(4th century BC) had been accused of stealing the traditional ''Epigoni'' by incorporating its plot in his literary epic ''Thebais''. The story of the Epigoni was afterwards told again in the form of a tragedy by Sophocles, '' Epigoni''.

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* . {{Homer 8th-century BC books Ancient Greek epic poems Homer Lost poems Sequels Theban Cycle Works of uncertain authorship

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