# Polynices — Discourses character guide

> Polynices in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Theban prince, used in examples of fraternal strife.

## In the story

### [On Friendship](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/xxii-on-friendship)

Used alongside Eteocles to illustrate how friendship breaks when interest is placed in externals.

### [Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/v-against-the-quarrelsome-and-ferocious)

Mentioned alongside Eteocles as an example of how false opinions about power and exile cause enmity even between brothers.

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