Epigone. sb. /'epi:,gA:n/ [< L epigonus < Gk epigonos < epigignesthai 'to be born after' < epi- 'on, at, beside' + gignesthai 'to be born'] 1. A descendant. 2. A follower or inferior imitator. 3. pl. The sons of the Seven against Thebes. (The term is also applied to the descendents of the Diadochi and the offspring of Alexander the Great's soldiers and Asian women.)

Quotation: "The sons of the Grecian heroes who were killed in the First Theban War. The War of the Epigoni is famous in ancient history. It was undertaken ten years after the first. The sons of those who had perished in the first war resolved to avenge the death of their fathers." [Harry Thurston Peck. 1898. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities.]

The Seven Against Thebes were: Adrastus of Argos and his two sons-in-law, Polynices (the son of Oedipus, king of Thebes, against whom the Seven marched) and Tydeus of Calydon, and four others, Hippomedon, Parthenopæus, Capaneus, and Amphiaraüs.