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- 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
- 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
