History Theatre / TheProgeny

* PurpleIsPowerful: A common trope in Ancient Greece, and likely the reason Speaker B includes the detail about crest color while describing the soldiers’ awe-inspiring armor.

* PurpleIsPowerful: A common trope in Ancient Greece, and likely the reason Speaker B includes the detail about the crest color while describing the soldiers’ awe-inspiring armor.

* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: The play seems to give us no idea where Speaker A and B are talking, leaving the audience to decide whether they're either in some sort of Theban armory or a lovely retirement home in Guam.

* NoNameGiven: Speaker A and Speaker B aren't actual names, and nothing in what remains of the play indicates that either speaker has a name.

* MissingEpisode: ''Progeny'' itself within Sophocles' Theban Cycle.

* {{Interquel}}: The stunning events of ''The Progeny'' take place in between Sophocles's first two Oedipus plays and his first play, ''Theatre/Antigone''.

'''''The Progeny''''' was the third in a tetrology of plays written by Creator/{{Sophocles}} about [[CrapsackWorld Thebes]]. Taking place between ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'' and ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', it chronicles the war that occurs when Polyneices attacks his home city to regain the throne from Eteocles, his brother who decided not to step down when it was Polyneices' turn to rule.

{{Creator/Aeschylus}} treated the same story in his play ''Seven Against Thebes.'' Ironically, ''his'' plays depicting the rest of the Oedipus story were also lost to history.

Creator/Aeschylus treated the same story in his play ''Seven Against Thebes.'' Ironically, ''his'' plays depicting the rest of the Oedipus story were also lost to history.

'''''The Progeny''''' was the third in a tetrology of plays written by {{Sophocles}} about [[CrapsackWorld Thebes]]. Taking place between ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'' and ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', it chronicles the war that occurs when Polyneices attacks his home city to regain the throne from Eteocles, his brother who decided not to step down when it was Polyneices' turn to rule.

'''The Progeny''' was the third in a tetrology of plays written by Sophocles about [[CrapsackWorld Thebes]]. Taking place between ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'' and ''Theatre/Antigone'', it chronicles the war that occurs when Polyneices attacks his home city to regain the throne from Eteocles, his brother who decided not to step down when it was Polyneices' turn to rule.

!!This play contains examples of:

* CostumePorn - The only surviving lines seem to be in the middle of describing military outfits and equipment.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences - Speakers A and B.
* MissingEpisode
* MutuallyAssuredDestruction - Eteocles and Polyneices go to war despite knowing the prophecy guarantees both will kill each other.
* SoleSurvivor - Adrastus is the only survivor of the Seven Against Thebes.
* SpinOffspring - About the conflict between Oedipus' sons for the throne he vacated.

* MutuallyAssuredDestruction - Eteocles and Polyneices go to war despite knowing the prophecy guarentees both will kill each other.

'''The Progeny''' was the third in a tetrology of plays written by Sophocles about [[CrapsackWorld Thebes]]. Taking place between ''Theater/OedipusAtColonus'' and ''Theater/Antigone'', it chronicles the war that occurs when Polyneices attacks his home city to regain the throne from Eteocles, his brother who decided not to step down when it was Polyneices' turn to rule.