Seven Against Thebes
"(Eteokles, King of Thebes, prays before the battle of the Seven Against Thebes:) ‘O Zeus and Ge (Earth), and gods that guard our city, and Ara (Curse), potent agent of my father's Erinys (Vengeance), do not destroy my city, ripping it up from its foundations, captive of the enemy, a city that speaks in Greece's tongue, and do not destroy our hearths and homes.’"