Seven against Thebes (,
Hepta epi Thebas; ) is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by
Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the
Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an
Argive army led by
Polynices and the army of
Thebes led by
Eteocles and his supporters. The trilogy won the first prize at the
City Dionysia. The trilogy's first two plays,
Laius and
Oedipus, as well as the
satyr play Sphinx, are no longer extant.