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- However, if the observation were made at Thebes, as a minority of scholars ... prow of his ship, before he returned to Thebes. After that campaign, he ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2023
- period and their cult centers were at Heliopolis, Thebes, and Memphis, respectively. The axis of the temple was positioned by the ancient Egyptian ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- advantage over potential rivals such as Thebes and Sparta. From early in ... and defeating Sparta in alliance with Thebes (369 B.C.E.). By mid-century ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- the reign of his father or grandfather, Thebes rebelled against the Hyksos ... The conflict between the local kings of Thebes and the Hyksos king ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar ... Argos) and Nauplia in the Argolid, near Thebes and Delphi, and not far from ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 B.C.E. in Akademeia, then a northern suburb six ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- unequivocally references the sacking of Thebes at the hands of the Assyrian army, This reference can be found in Nahum 3:8-10 : Are you better than ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 20:35, 17 May 2023
- Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus about 241 B.C.E. He left no extant ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 04:33, 6 October 2022
- and a circa 1550 B.C.E. stool from Thebes. Ancient Greek furniture design beginning in the second millennium B.C.E., including beds and the ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- 264 B.C.E.), who studied under the cynic Crates of Thebes and founded the Stoic school, explicitly taught that a life of tranquility could be achieved ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 05:58, 11 August 2023
- of other gods, especially of the state god Amen of Thebes. ("beneficial to Aten") and left Thebes for a new capital at Akhetaten ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- came to Athens and began to study under Crates of Thebes, the most famous Cynic living at that time in Greece. Zeno studied under several other philosophers ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- of her overseas possessions. Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should ... to be her savior, as neither Corinth nor Thebes at the time could challenge ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- The Megarian School of philosophy was founded c. 400 B.C.E. by Euclides of Megara, an early Hellenistic philosopher and one of the pupils of ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 04:09, 9 November 2022
- from numerous city-states (including Thebes, Euboea, Naxos, Sparta and ... drama, Dionysus returns to his birthplace, Thebes, a city-state ruled by his ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- of females who tended her there. At Thebes she was called Thebe, and ... Hellenic state, from Athens and Sparta, to Thebes and Ithaca: "As illustrations ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- Theseus slew the Minotaur to save his city, Thebes. ===Mycenaeans=== ... affairs: Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes. Each of them had brought ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- data in the areas around Abydos and Thebes. At Abydos he discovered discolored circles on the desert surface, and interpreted them as remains ...11 KB (1,543 words) - 19:06, 4 December 2023
- quartzite, from the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. 18th dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut ... dynasty, circa 1480 B.C.E. Originally from Thebes, at the Temple of Karnak ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- that had perished, such as Palmyra, Persepolis, and Thebes, had left ruins to mark their sites and tell of their former greatness; but of this city, imperial ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- court of Merneptah's mortuary temple at Thebes by Flinders Petrie in 1896.Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson, The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (British ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- as possible, including Athens and Thebes, before the Western Powers imposed a ceasefire. A conference in London, in March 1829, proposed an independent ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Pachomius was born in 292 in Thebes (Luxor, Egypt) to pagan parents. A particularly hagiographical detail, found in the Bohairic version of the ...11 KB (1,740 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- come to visit a poor man called Hyrieus (from Thebes or Chios) who served them a whole bull, and when they offered him a favor, he asked for sons. ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- by more easily recognizable sites of Giza and Thebes, until William John Bankes discovered the "Table of Abydos," which brought more attention ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- the most notable perhaps being at Corinth and at Thebes. The government of the Roman republic is often described as "oligarchical." ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- concluding: "When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: 'Man.' That simple word ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2021
- rise in influence of the High Priests of Amun at Thebes, who founded the 21st dynasty at the start the Third Intermediate Period although their rule ...12 KB (1,918 words) - 16:32, 11 November 2022
- also transported the Egyptian capital from Thebes to Ra'amses in the Delta ... most notably the Ramesseum in the western Thebes and the rock temples of Abu ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- In later Classical times, Sparta along with Athens, Thebes and Persia ... a coalition of the leading Greek states: Thebes, Athens, Corinth, and Argos ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- had no cult of her own. In this way, at Thebes Hathor was identified with ... varied locales as Atfih, Cusae, Memphis, Thebes, Deir el-Medina, and Dendera, ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- In another case of deadly hubris, Niobe, a queen of Thebes and wife to King Amphion, boasted that she was superior to Leto because she had 14 ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- to their priesthoods, and the capital moved back to Thebes. The young pharaoh also adopted the name Tutankhamun, changing it from his birth name Tutankhaten ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 02:21, 18 April 2023
- 3D%23156;layout=;loc=5.11 10] Supported by Thebes and Thessaly, Macedon took ... the most desirable ally for Athens was Thebes. Therefore, Demosthenes was ...80 KB (11,861 words) - 09:32, 28 January 2024
- by Giza and later by the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, it remained an important complex for minor burials and cult ceremonies for more than 3,000 years ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- mythology. Traditionally, the city of Thebes was founded by a Phoenician ... arrived in Greece with the mythical founder of Thebes, Cadmus. ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- temples and the splendid temple of Der al-Bakri at Thebes. Its general form also reminds students of ancient architecture of several Egyptian sanctuaries. ...30 KB (4,697 words) - 20:29, 9 May 2024
- " He was the mythical founder and king of Thebes. The Ogygian flood covered the whole world and was so devastating that the country remained without ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- May you spend millions of years, You who love Thebes, Sitting with your face to the north wind, Your eyes beholding happiness" (from the Wishing ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- Horus= Kanakht Khaemwaset Mighty Bull, Arising in Thebes | ... city like Memphis or Heliopolis, or in Thebes. These two latitudes give ...45 KB (7,145 words) - 14:03, 14 January 2024
- honored as Zeus Amphiaraus at Oropus outside of Thebes, and the Spartans even had a shrine to Zeus Agamemnon. ===Oracles=== Although most oracle ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- two kingdoms were divided. Mentuhopet of Thebes (c. 2040 B.C.E.) established ... Circa 1550 B.C.E. the rulers of Thebes once again re-unified Egypt ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- into its civilization, such as Tiryns, Pylos, Thebes, and Orchomenos.Brian Mandelkow, MSU EMuseum, (2007), [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/e ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- *Seven Against Thebes (467 B.C.E.) (Hepta epi Thebas) *The Suppliants (463 B.C.E.?) (Hiketides) *Oresteia (458 B.C.E.) **Agamemnon ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- Alexander annihilated the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite corps previously ... of Macedon. Greek cities like Athens and Thebes, which had pledged allegiance ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- deities: Atum in Lower Egypt, Amun in Thebes, Ptah in Memphis, and Ra in the later, syncretistic, pan-Egyptian cult. See Frankfort, 20-22, 131; ...20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
- quot;), who assisted him to build the citadel of Thebes, becoming the founders of the noblest families of that city. The dragon Ladon guarded the Golden ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- of southern Greece. Athens, Pylos, Thebes, and Tiryns are also important ... to prevail in its 10-year war with Phocis, Thebes called upon Philip II of ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- . Heaney's 2004 play, The Burial at Thebes, suggests parallels between ... * 2004: The Burial at Thebes: A version of Sophocles' Antigone ...80 KB (11,371 words) - 23:33, 1 August 2023
- * The Struggle of Thebes (1944) كفاح طيبة * Modern Cairo (1945) القاهرة الجديدة * Khan El-Khalili (1945)خان الخليلي ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
