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- Crates of Thebes (c. 368 – 288 B.C.E.), a Hellenistic philosopher, was one of the Cynics and the teacher of Zeno of Citium. Crates was a student ...7 KB (1,133 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
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- Pindar was born at Cynoscephalae, a village in Thebes. He was the ... events and princes, his house in Thebes was spared by Alexander the ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- ===The founding of Thebes=== One of the many roles of Ares was in the founding of Thebes. Ares ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- Diogenes of Sinope, and Crates of Thebes. == History == ... *Crates of Thebes *Zeno of Citium *Stoicism == References == ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- Crates of Thebes (c. 368 – 288 B.C.E.), a Hellenistic philosopher, was one of the Cynics and the teacher of Zeno of Citium. Crates was a student ...7 KB (1,133 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan ... 27 years after his death, a recalcitrant Thebes was obliterated by Alexander ...33 KB (5,264 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
- *explore the necropolis of Meidum, and those of Abydos and Thebes; ... on, in February 1859, Mariette dashed to Thebes to confiscate a large amount ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- Nubia, the expedition worked back north, reaching Thebes on November 2, 1844, where they spent four months studying the western bank of the Nile (such ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- and later by the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, it remained an important ... kings, in the Valley of the Kings in Ancient Thebes. ==Later burials ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- deity whose cult originated at Thebes, in the Upper Kingdom of classical Egypt. The god, whose name literally means "Hidden One," fulfilled ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- and a c. 1550 B.C.E. stool from Thebes. Ancient Greek furniture design beginning in the second millennium B.C.E., including beds and the klismos ...10 KB (1,622 words) - 07:22, 15 April 2024
- the myth of Oedipus, son of King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta, also known ... As the play begins, Sophocles joins the story in media res after Thebes ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- Xenocrates ( Ξενοκράτης ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third scholarch or rector of the Academy from ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- of ancient Egyptians at Naqadah, north of Thebes, and found the remains of ... In Thebes, Petrie discovered a stele of Merneptah. There, he found ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- *Crates of Thebes ==External links== All links retrieved January 29, 2024. *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/hetairai/diogenes ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- muster a force which invaded Upper Egypt and made Thebes his capital. Necho I, fighting as Assyria's vassal, may have died in the battle. Another ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- From this passage it is clear that Philolaus had spent time in Thebes ... , took refuge first in Lucania and then at Thebes, where he had as pupils Simmias ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- representing the god Amon, in Thebes, of which there were originally ... [[File:Oedipus and the Sphinx of Thebes, Red Figure Kylix, c. 470 ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- on the west bank of the Nile, across from Thebes, and consists of two valleys ... [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/87 Ancient Thebes with its necropolis]. UNESCO ...45 KB (7,190 words) - 20:00, 27 April 2020
- 1537 B.C.E. If the observation was made in Thebes, however, it could only have ... The latter choice is usually accepted as correct since Thebes was ...23 KB (3,603 words) - 02:51, 24 July 2023
- 7 (1343 B.C.E.) the capital was moved from Thebes to Amarna, though construction ... abandoned Amarna to return the capital to Thebes, as evidence of his return ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- 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 (4,700 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- " 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
- later moved to Heliopolis, further south to Thebes; then, under the Ptolemaic dynasty, it moved to Alexandria. The first settlement on the location ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- century B.C.E., from Ramesseum, [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]].]] The earliest representations of siege warfare are dated to the Protodynastic Period ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- campaign in 667/666, took Memphis, and sacked Thebes. Because the princes were obviously unreliable, the Assyrian king chose one of them who could be ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- Athanasios Diakos on March 29, followed by Thebes two days later. The Ottoman ... as possible, including Athens and Thebes, before the western powers ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- Kashta conquered Upper Egypt and became ruler of Thebes until approximately 740 B.C.E. In 590 B.C.E., the Egyptian army forced the Kushite court ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- monastic movement were Anthony the Great, Paul of Thebes, Macarius the Great, Shenouda the Archimandrite and Pachomius the Cenobite. By the end of the ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- * Cynicism: Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Crates of Thebes (taught Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism) * Neo-Platonism: Ammonius Saccas, Porphyry ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- with Athens in the sixth century B.C.E. against Thebes and decided to repay the help by coming to assist the Athenians in their time of need, just ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- beaches and set up another rearguard at Thebes.Bailey, 33. The Panzer units ... to an improvised switch position south of Thebes, where they erected a last ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- Odysseus desires to talk with Tiresias, blind prophet of Thebes]], who is already dead, so he and his men journey to the River Acheron in Hades ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- told by the Merchant. John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes is also a depiction of the return journey but the tales themselves are actually prequels to ...31 KB (5,016 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- you at Troy in the house of Priam, and I at Thebes under the wooded mountain of Plakos in the house of Eetion who brought me up when I was a child ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- fathers—for instance, Paphnutius of Thebes, Potamon of Heraclea and Paul of Neocaesarea—had stood forth as confessors of the faith and came ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- god was Chnum; among the Amun-Mut-Chons triad of Thebes, it was Amun; and among the Ptah-Sekhmet-Nefertem triad of Memphis, the chief god was Ptah. Throughout ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- #039; Oedipus Rex, the inhabitants of Thebes suffer the ill effects of the pollution caused by Oedipus' parricide and incest. ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- After the authority of Thebes had risen, and made Amun into a much more significant god, it later waned, and Amun was assimilated into Ra. In ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- Thebes was willing to pass to the Persian side when the Xerxes's army reached their borders, and did so immediately following Thermopylae ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- its subjects). In 447 B.C.E. the oligarchs of Thebes conspired against the democratic faction. The Athenians demanded their immediate surrender, ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- *Seven against Thebes *Seven Emperors (and period; Rome, history) **Julius Caesar, Augustus, Galba, Hadrian, Nerva, Sallust, Vespasian ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- by the Egyptian ruler Ahmose, who had ruled in Thebes, and the fleeing Hyksos were apparently pursued by the Egyptian army across northern Sinai and ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- Athens (ancient Greek: αἱ Ἀθῆναι (plural), evolving into the modern αι Αθήναι in Greek until recently, and η Αθήνα now (IPA ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- Dynasty and relocated the capital from Memphis to Thebes. The New Kingdom (c. 1550−1070 B.C.E.) began with the Eighteenth Dynasty, marking the ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
