• Amphiaraus was one of the seven kings against Thebes. Foreseeing his own fate, he concealed himself, to avoid going to the war; but his wife Eriphyle, bribed by a diamond necklace (as famous in ancient story as the Cardinal de Rohan’s in modern), revealed his hiding-place, and he went to his doom with the others. Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes :⁠— “I will tell of the sixth, a man most prudent and in valor the best, the seer, the mighty Amphiaraus.⁠ ⁠… And through his mouth he gives utterance to this speech⁠ ⁠… ‘I, for my part, in very truth shall fatten this soil, seer as I am, buried beneath a hostile earth.’ ” Statius, Thebaid , VIII 47, Lewis’s Tr. :⁠— “Bought of my treacherous wife for cursed gold, And in the list of Argive chiefs enrolled, Resigned to fate I sought the Theban plain; Whence flock the shades that scarce thy realm contain; When, how my soul yet dreads! an earthquake came, Big with destruction, and my trembling frame, Rapt from the midst of gaping thousands, hurled To night eternal in thy nether world.” ↩