Thebes

Standing on top of a hill overlooking Thebes , Leto saw all this and was ready to pay back.

Oedipus had not gone far on his way to Thebes when he saw a cart coming towards him.

A prophet warned King Laius of Thebes that because he had married his cousin Jocasta, he would be killed by his son.

(Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother.

By the age of 20, Alexander the Great was proclaimed the King of Macedon and had conquered Athens and Thebes.

Oedipus became king of Thebes and husband of the queen, his mother.

Niobe, the queen of Thebes, had indeed good reason to be proud of her herself .

The earliest known palaces are those of the Egyptian kings at Thebes, with an outer wall enclosing a labyrinth of rooms and courtyards.

A king of Thebes was mistakenly killed by his own son, Oedipus.

Many smaller Greek states, moreover, took the side of the Persians, especially Thessaly, Thebes and Argos .

"The Seven Against Thebes" (467 BCE) is the last part of his lost trilogy dealing with the life of Oedipus.

One odd contrast between the life of old Thebes or Babylon and modem life was the absence of coined money.

Pawero and Paser are of equal rank, one responsible for the sacred tombs across the Nile, the other for the holy city of Thebes.

This temple should not be confused with the beautiful Tomb to Nefertari in the Valley of Queens near Thebes.

Because, Rameses family is not orthodox Thebes royal families of origin, they are the rulers from the delta region.

Alexander soon appeared before Thebes with his army. To set an example, he completely destroyed the city.

BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece .

The area covers and surrounds the place where the city of Thebes once stood.

At that time, his son heir to the boat ride at tower confit to lead a massive imperial fleet remains of the Nile will father sent to Thebes.

The remains are of a woman, Irtyersenu, who died in Thebes around 600 BC, aged about 50.

Across the river Nile from Thebes lies Egypt's royal burial ground.

Creon is king of Thebes, bound to the duties of rule.

The Spartans held Athens and Thebes by establishing oligarchies there; * yet they lost them both.

Inevitably the two holy capitals of Thebes and Napata received the bulk of Taharqa's attention.

It is very possible that Nefertari grew up as the daughter of a nobleman in Thebes .

Tiresias was a blind, darkening prophet of Thebes.

Standing today amid the hallowed clutter of the Karnak temple complex near Thebes is a lone 62-foot-high column.

Virgil: The seven kings who besieged Thebes reside here. They feared not that vengeance.

Before long, the impatient Apollo arrived outside Thebes in hidden clouds.

This destruction of Thebes betrayed a streak of violence in the new master of human destinies.

The Athenians, when they heard what had happened to Thebes, very quickly surrendered.

But now his trial is a political battle between the three most powerful men in Thebes, the Vizier, Paser, and Pawero.

They have been seated on their thrones for 33 centuries at the Necropolis of Thebes.

Harshire crosses the river and defying all protocol, takes his allegations to Pawero's political rival, Paser, the mayor of Thebes.

A detail of the mummy mask of Satdjehuty, from Thebes and dating to the early 18th Dynasty, (1550-1295 BC).

Presently the young maner rived in the kingdom of Thebes.

Our next stop is the ancient city of Thebes, known today as Luxor.

Antigone's marriage is worth more to Thebes than her death.

Who built the seven gates of Thebes?

What has been happening at Thebes that requires an appeal to Oedipus? In what capacity is he supposed to act?

Until the Hellenistic period, when the power of Thebes was pulled down, Boeotia was united with true federal constitution;

Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis

Mummy of Hornedjitef (third century BC). A wooden coffin from Thebes, Egypt

I who have sat by Thebes below the wall,

Latona and the Queen of Thebes