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5 days ago · The great temples of Thebes with their historical scenes and inscriptions, the tombs with their wealth of illustration of daily life and religious belief, and the countless antiquities that now fill the museums and private collections of the world, are all aspects of that legacy.
2 days ago · Heracles waged a victorious war against the kingdom of Orchomenus in Boeotia and married his first wife Megara, daughter of Creon, king of Thebes. But he killed their children in a fit of madness sent by Hera and, consequently, was obliged to become the servant of Eurystheus.
5 days ago · Thebes was the seat of the legendary king Oedipus and the locale of most of the ancient Greek tragedies—notably Aeschylus’s Seven Against Thebes and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Antigone—and of other compilations about the fate of Oedipus, his wife-mother, and his children.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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2 days ago · The god turned into a fierce lion and unleashed a bear on board, killing all in his path. Those who jumped ship were mercifully turned into dolphins. The only survivor was the helmsman, Acoetes , who recognized the god and tried to stop his sailors from the start.
4 days ago · To the south-west of the great necropolis complex at Thebes, on the west bank of the Nile, the Valley of the Queens, or Bïbâm el-Harim Valley, contains around a hundred tombs, three of which can be visited. Reserved for the tombs of the pharaohs' companions and children, the valley lies to the
5 days ago · However, in 1311 the Catalan Grand Company established its power over the duchies of Athens and Thebes, turning out their Latin lords. Under the protection of the Aragonese king Frederick II of Sicily (three sons of whom became dukes of Athens), they dominated the region until the Navarrese Company (an army of mercenaries
