-
Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are
generally known as the
Theban plays,
though each was part of a
different tetralogy (the
other members...
- 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–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...
- 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...
- the Nile,
opposite Thebes (modern-day Luxor) and
within the
heart of the
Theban Necropolis.
There are two main sections: the East Valley,
where the majority...
-
battle in
which Pelopidas was killed; nevertheless, the
Thebans won. The next
year, the
Theban general Epaminondas avenged Pelopidas'
death by a victory...
- and
sided with the
Persians during the 480 BC
invasion under Xerxes I.
Theban forces under the
command of
Epaminondas ended Spartan hegemony at the Battle...
-
civil war for the
Theban throne,
which resulted in both
brothers dying while fighting each other. Oedipus' brother-in-law and new
Theban ruler Creon ordered...
- was
known in
Egyptian as njw.t-jmn, the "City of Amun", the
chief of the
Theban Triad of
deities whose other members were Mut and Khonsu. This name of Thebes...
- to
signal the
restoration of Amun to his
former place of prominence. The
Theban High
Priest of Amun was
appointed by the King. It was not
uncommon for the...
