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Just outside the city is the place where the battle takes place in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the battle is the final phase in the first civil war over the Theban royal succession. The war is fought around the city's seven gates. It is lost by the attackers when the twin brothers Eteocles and Polyneices, respective leaders of Thebes' defenders and invaders, kill each on the last day of the final battle.

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