Crossword-Solution: EPIGONI 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The _Epigoni_ (ascribed to Antimachus of Teos) recounted the expedition of the “After-Born” against Thebes, and the sack of the city.

THE EPIGONI Fragment #1—Contest of Homer and Hesiod: Next (Homer composed) the _Epigoni_ in seven thousand verses, beginning, ‘And now, Muses, let us begin to sing of younger men.’ Fragment #2—Photius, Lexicon: Teumesia.

But Homer, after losing the victory, went from place to place reciting his poems, and first of all the _Thebais_ in seven thousand verses which begins: ‘Goddess, sing of parched Argos whence kings...’, and then the _Epigoni_ in seven thousand verses beginning: ‘And now, Muses, let us begin to sing of men of later days’; for some say that these poems also are by Homer.

One by one these wits and scholars of the North, these _epigoni_ who were not, indeed, of the heroes, but who had seen and remembered Scott and Wilson, have passed away.

The athletic young bearers of the large round ostrich-feather fans which protected them from the sunbeams were followed in ranks by the monarch's "relatives" and "friends," the dignitaries, the dark and fair-haired bands of the guards of Grecian youths and boys, as well as divisions of the picked corps of the Hetairoi, Diadochi, and Epigoni, in beautiful plain Macedonian armour.