Oedipus (Dryden play) and Jocasta who die in the end: Of all the persons of the drama, scarce one survives the fifth act. Oedipus dashes out his brains, Jocasta stabs herself, their children are strangled, Creon kills Eurydice, Adrastus kills Creon and the insurgents kill Adrastus; when we add to this, that the conspirators are hanged, the reader will perceive, that the play, which began with pestilence, concludes with a massacre. The following quotation, taken from the epilogue, summarises Dryden's approach: <poem> Their [i.e. Dryden/ Lee] treat is what your palates relish most, Charm! song! and show! a murder and a ghost!</poem> Extensive
Magnes (son of Aeolus) became king of the island while his brother Dictys, a fisherman would later receive Danae and her son Perseus. Pierus, the father of Hyacinth by the Muse Clio, was also called a son of Magnes. The scholiast of Euripides called Magnes' wife as Philodice and his sons Eurynomus and Eioneus. Otherwise, Eustathius named his wife as a certain Meliboea and mentions one son, Alector and adds that Magnes called the town of Meliboea, at the foot of mount Pelion, after his wife, and the country of Magnesia after his own name. Magnes (son of Aeolus) In Greek mythology, Magnes (Ancient