 Due to the popularity of Sophocles's "Antigone" (c. 442 BC), the ending (lines 1005–78) of "Seven against Thebes" was added some fifty years after Aeschylus' death.Whereas the play (and the trilogy of which it is the last play) was meant to end with somber mourning for the dead brothers, the spurious ending features a herald announcing the prohibition against burying Polynices, and Antigone's declaration that she will defy that edict.Oedipus was a figure who was also used in the Latin literature of ancient Rome.