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It's unknown in the play 'Antigone' whether Eteocles and Polyneices are twins. They're described just as brothers. But they in fact are twins according to other information sources. The brothers start out as friendly power-sharing monarchs over the city of Thebes. They end up killing each other in the battle between Argos and Thebes.

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