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Capaneus

[ kuh-pey-nee-uhs, kap-uh-noos, -nyoos ]

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.


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It was Evadne, the wife of Capaneus.

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Notable early sales included Hirst's Capaneus, a kaleidoscopic assemblage of moths, butterflies, spiders and beetles that sold for £600,000, and Jeff Koons's almost life-size sculpture of silent film star Buster Keaton, with an asking price of between £3m and £3.5m.

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As an example, Capaneus is represented as bearing the figure of a giant with a blazing torch, and the motto, “I will fire the city!”

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And Euripides, in his Suppliant Women, says of Capaneus— This man is Capaneus, a man who had Abundant riches, but no pride therefrom Lodged in his, more than in a poor man's bosom.

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Capaneus was not, as it seems, such as the honest Chrysippus describes, in his treatise On those things which are not eligible for their own sakes.

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