Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Hippomedon.
The gallery
Tydeus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus
Unknown (classical illustration), 19th century
Printed trio of Argive champions names Hippomedon among the Seven against Thebes — the Oncaidian-gate warrior of Apollodorus, standing with Tydeus and Parthenopaeus. Schoolbook imagery kept the lesser-sung chief visible beside Capaneus and Polynices.
The Seven Chiefs before Thebes
Angélique Mongez, 1822
Mongez’s neoclassical machine gathers the Seven before the walls — Hippomedon among the oath-bound captains of Aeschylus and Statius. Salon ambition makes the Argive siege a single painted roster.
The Oath of the Seven Chiefs
Unknown (Project Gutenberg plate), 19th century
Book illustration of the Seven swearing over the bull’s blood — Hippomedon’s cohort sealed for the Theban war. Popular engraving carried the Aeschylean oath into Victorian myth handbooks.