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The Phoenissae or The Phoenician Women is a tragedy by Euripides, based on the same story as Aeschylus play Seven Against Thebes . It was written between 411 and 409 BC . It was presented along with the tragedies Hypsipyle and Antiope . The play is set at Thebes and concerns the battle between the two sons of Oedipus over control of the city . When Eteocles refuses to yield power, Polyneices brings an army to attack the city . The two brothers eventually kill each other, and when their mother, Jocasta, discovers their bodies, she kills herself . Their uncle Creon takes control and sentences Oedipus, who has been held in the city, to exile . The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to Delphi who are trapped in Thebes by the war . Unlike some of Euripides\' other plays, the chorus does not play a significant role in the plot, but represents the innocent and neutral people who very often are found in the middle of war situations .