A son of Talaus in the Biantid house at Argos, Pronax was father of Amphithea — whom Adrastus married — and of Lycurgus, who quarrelled with Amphiaraus before the march on Thebes.1
Apollodorus counts Pronax among the children Talaus begot on Lysimache, in the same breath as Adrastus, Mecisteus, Aristomachus, and Eriphyle. Of Pronax he records only that he had a son Lycurgus; of Adrastus, that he married Amphithea, daughter of Pronax — so the Argive king wed his brother's daughter and the Theban war was bound into a single kindred.2
Pausanias saw the feud remembered in paint. At Delphi, Polygnotus showed Amphiaraus and Lycurgus son of Pronax coming to blows while Adrastus and Tydeus held them apart — the quarrel of the seer who foresaw disaster and the prince whose sister's marriage had tied him to the expedition.3
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