It was then that Adrastus recalled a prophecy that had instructed him to “yoke his daughters to a boar and a lion”.[1] Adrastus recognized Tydeus as the boar and Polynices as the lion (either by the ferocious manner in which they fought, the animals emblazoned on their shields,[2] or the animal skins they wore[3]) and wed his daughters to them, keeping them as his sons-in-law in Argos.