Search results for "Thebes, Greece" - New World Encyclopedia
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- one of the canonical nine poets of ancient Greece who is considered, almost ... Pindar was born at Cynoscephalae, a village in Thebes. He was the ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- Ares was rarely worshipped in ancient Greece, except among the Spartans ... One of the many roles of Ares was in the founding of Thebes. Ares ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan ... The Roman orator Cicero called him "the first man of Greece, ...33 KB (5,264 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
- and it became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium B ... or Olympeion (once the largest temple in Greece but now mostly in ruins) ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- as a mythical creature existed in Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, was revered ... representing the god Amon, in Thebes, of which there were originally ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 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
- deity whose cult originated at Thebes, in the Upper Kingdom of ... of Min, especially in the area around Thebes (from whence it originated). ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... classical Greek legacy. Relations between Greece and the Ottoman Empire and ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- that developed between 3000-1200 B.C.E. in Greece and the basin of the Aegean ... Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- 1941, on the eve of the German invasion of Greece. During the Second World ... Politically, Cyprus was entangled in the dispute between the UK, Greece ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2021
- 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
- of power among the leading city-states of Greece and the Peloponnese. Athens, the strongest city-state in Greece prior to the war's beginning ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- of the most influential writers of ancient Greece and among the greatest dramatists ... the myth of Oedipus, son of King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta, also known ...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
- 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
- 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
- Mycenae (Greek grc|Μυκῆναι), is an archaeological site in ... its civilization, such as Tiryns, Pylos, Thebes, and Orchomenos.Brian Mandelkow ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- 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
- for belonging to the ruling elite. In Greece, the oligarchs were often ... of a Constitutional Form in Ancient Greece (Historia Einzelschirften; ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- 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
