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Theban can
refer to: A
thing or
person of or from the city of Thebes, Greece. A
thing or
person of or from the city of Thebes, Egypt. The
occult Theban...
- 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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which gave rise to the (now
somewhat obscure) name "Agenorids" to
denote Thebans.
Archaeological excavations in and
around Thebes have
revealed a Mycenaean...
- The
Theban Cycle (Gr****: Θηβαϊκὸς Κύκλος) is a
collection of four lost
epics of
ancient Gr****
literature which tells the
mythological history of the Boeotian...
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consisting of 150
pairs of male
couples which formed the
elite force of the
Theban army in the 4th
century BC,
ending Spartan domination. Its predominance...
- 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 Necropolis (Arabic: مدينة طيبة الجنائزية, romanized: Madīnat Ṭaybah al-Janāʼizīyah) is a
necropolis on the west bank of the Nile,
opposite Thebes...
- The
Theban Necropolis is
located on the west bank of the Nile,
opposite Luxor, in Egypt. As well as the more
famous royal tombs located in the
Valley of...
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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...
