- The
Theban Legion (also
known as the
Martyrs of Agaunum)
figures in
Christian hagiography as a
Roman legion from
Egypt —"six
thousand six
hundred and sixty-six...
- The
Theban alphabet, also
known as the witches' alphabet, is a
writing system,
specifically a
substitution cipher of the
Latin script, that was used by...
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Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are
generally known as the
Theban plays,
though each was part of a
different tetralogy (the
other members...
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Spartan subjugation into a pre-eminent
position in Gr****
politics called the
Theban Hegemony. In the process, he
broke Spartan military power with his victory...
- The
Theban–Spartan War of 378–362 BC was a
series of
military conflicts fought between Sparta and
Thebes for
hegemony over Greece.
Sparta had
emerged victorious...
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Epopeus after finding herself pregnant by the god Zeus.)
Nycteus and the
Thebans were defeated, and
Nycteus himself died of his
battle wounds. He was succeeded...
- Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲣⲓⲥ) was an
Egyptian military leader who
headed the
legendary Theban Legion of Rome in the 3rd century, and is one of the
favourite and most...
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civil war for the
Theban throne,
which resulted in both
brothers dying fighting each other. Oedipus' brother-in-law and new
Theban ruler Creon ordered...
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democratic Athens; the
First and
Second Peloponnesian Wars; the
Spartan and then
Theban hegemonies; and the
expansion of
Macedonia under Philip II. Much of the...
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Catholic Church;
according to tradition, he was the standard-bearer of the
Theban Legion and thus a
companion to
Saint Maurice. Exuperius’
relics were translated...
