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====Envoy to Thebes==== [[File:Tydeus by Ryabinin.jpg|thumb|Tydeus, fighting with the soldiers of Eteocles]] When the expedition reached [[Cithaeron]], Tydeus was sent ahead to demand that the Thebans reinstate Polynices. Frustrated with being ignored by Eteocles, Tydeus issued one-on-one challenges to multiple men and vanquished each one with power granted to him by Athena. While Tydeus returned to his allies, the Thebans amassed a force of fifty men, led by [[Maeon]] and [[Polyphontes]], and ambushed him. Tydeus killed every man with the exception of Maeon, whom he allowed to live due to signs from the gods.<ref>Apollodorus, 1.8.5 & 3.6.1-8; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 4.394 ff.</ref>
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