Crates of Thebes, a Hellenistic philosopher, was one of the Cynics and the teacher of Zeno of Citium. Crates was from Thebes and was a student of Diogenes of Sinope. It is said that he lost his ample fortune owing to the Macedonian invasion, but a more probable story is that he sacrificed it in accordance with his principles, directing the banker, to whom he entrusted it, to give it to his sons if they should prove fools, ...

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Thebes Egypt, Thebes Egypt - Major archaeological sites in Thebes, Thebes Egypt - East Bank, Thebes Egypt - West Bank, Thebes Egypt - Sources

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The record of the earliest days of Thebes was preserved among the Greeks in an abundant mass of legends which rival the myths of Troy in their wide ramification and the influence which they exerted upon the literature of the classical age. Five main cycles of story may be distinguished: The foundation of the citadel Cadmea by Cadmus, and the growth of the Sparti or "Sown Men" (probably an aetiological myth designed to explain the origin of the Theban nobility which bore that name in historical times); The building of a ...

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379 BC - Events. The occupying Spartan garrison at Thebes is driven out by Pelopidas and Epaminondas. 379 BC - Births. 379 BC - Deaths. Category: 370s BC ...

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There are two characters named Amphion in Greek mythology: Amphion, son of Zeus and Antiope, and twin brother of Zethus (see Amphion and Zethus). Together they are famous for building Thebes. Amphion married Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children at the hands of Apollo and Artemis. One of his surviving children was the daughter now renamed as Chloris. Amphion, son of Hyperasius and Hypso, an Argonaut. Category: Greek mythological people

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There were two women named Antigone ("like her ancestors") in Greek mythology. Antigone - Daughter of Oedipus. The best known Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Iocaste (Jocasta), or, according to the older story, of Euryganeia. When Oedipus, on discovering that Iocaste, the mother of his children, was also his own mother, put his eyes out and stepped down as King of Thebes, Antigone accompanied him into exile at Colonus. After his death she returned to Thebes, where Haemon, the son of Creon, ...

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In Greek mythology, Capaneus was a son of Hipponous and husband of Evadne, with whom he fathered Sthenelus. According to the legend, Capaneus had immense strength and body size and was outstanding warrior. He was also notorious for his arrogance. He stood just at the wall of Thebes at the siege of Thebes and shouted that Zeus himself could not stop him from invading it. Zeus struck and killed Capaneus with a thunderbolt, and Evadne threw herself on her husband's funeral pyre and died. His story may be found in Ae ...

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In Greek mythology, Adrastus, or Adrastos ("he who stands his ground", son of Talaus) was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iphis and Amphiaraus, who was married to Adrastus' sister Eriphyle. His daughters (Argea and Deipyle) married Polynices and Tydeus, respectively. When his sons-in-law were chased out of Thebes, Adrastus helped organize the Seven Against Thebes. Adrastus was the only survivor of the battle and he died from grief over the death of his son, Aegialeus. He was venera ...

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In Greek mythology, Creon, or Kreon ("ruler"), son of Menoeceus, was the father of Haemon and Megara by his wife, Eurydice. Also occasionally the uncle of Amphitryon. When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year. However, they showed no concern for their father, who cursed them for their negligence. After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters (the Seven ...

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In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebes (=Thebe-under-Placus), over which her father ruled. During the Trojan War, Hector was killed by Achilles. Their infant son Astyanax was killed by Achilles' son Neoptolemus. Neoptolemus took her as a concubine and Hector's brother, Helenus, as a slave. With Hector, Andromache had a son named Astyanax. By Neoptolemus, she was the mother of Molossus. When Neoptolemus died, Andromache married Helenu ...

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Oedipus (Greek Οἰδίπους, Oidipous, "swollen-foot"; rarely Οἰδίπος; Latin Oedipus) or Œdipus was the mythical king of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta, who, unknowingly, killed his father and married his mother. Oedipus' father, Laius, kidnapped and raped the young boy Chrysippus, and was in turn cursed by Chrysippus' father, Pelops. The weight of this curse bore down onto Oedip ...

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The Bruce Codex (also called the Codex Brucianus) is a gnostic manuscript acquired by the British Museum. In 1769, Lord James Bruce purchased the codex in Thebes in Upper Egypt. It was transferred to the museum with a number of other Oriental texts in 1842. It currently resides in the Bodleian Library, where it has been since 1848. Bruce Codex - Related Links. The Gnostic Society Library - The Bruce Codex ...

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Chaerephon (born ca. 470-450 BCE, died ca. 405-399 BCE) was a loyal friend and follower of Socrates. He is mentioned by three writers of the time, all of whom probably knew him: Xenophon, Aristophanes, and Plato. In his Memorabilia Xenophon includes Chaerephon in his list of the "true companions" of Socrates. Also in the Socratic inner circle, according to Xenophon, were Crito, Hermogenes, Simmias of Thebes, Cebes of Thebes, Phaedondes, and Chaerephon's younger brother Chaerecrates (and Xenophon acknowledges that ...

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In Greek mythology Alcmene, or Alkmênê ("might of the moon") , the daughter of Electryon, king of Mycenae and a son of Perseus, was the wife of Amphitryon in his exile, though he had accidentally killed her father. Some mythographers identified her mother as Eurydice (Graves, 110.c). With Amphitryon she fled to Thebes, where Creon purified her husband of his blood-guilt. However, Alcmene's eight br ...

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In Egyptian mythology, Mut (mother) was originally a title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, Naunet, in the Ogdoad cosmogeny. However, the distinction between motherhood, and cosmic water, lead to the separation of these identities, and Mut gained aspects of a creator goddess, since she was the mother from which the cosmos emerged. In the Middle Kingdom, when Thebes grew in importance, its patron, Amun also became more significant, and so his wife Amaunet, who was simply a female version of Amun, was replaced with a mo ...

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In Greek mythology, Aegialeus (also Aegealeus, Egialeus) was the son of Adrastus. Aegialeus joined the orphans of the Seven Against Thebes. This raid was called the War of the Epigoni. They succeeded, but Aegialeus was killed by Laodamas. According to Eusebius, Egialeus was the first king and founder of the Greek city of Sicyon, west of Corinth in Peloponnesus. ...

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August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. August 2 - Events. 338 BC - Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea. 216 BC - Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art. 461 - Majorian resig ...

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In virtually all the mythology of the world, the Twin represents some "other" aspect of the Self, a doppelganger in some way. Often the twin is the "evil twin", or one may be human and one semi-divine. In myth, the twin may be a brother, or a soul-mate, such as the "civilized" Gilgamesh and the "wild" Enkidu. See also the mythic twins Castor and Pollux, Amphion and Zethus of Thebes, and Romulus and Remus of Rome.Gemini ...

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In Greek mythology, Tydeus was the father of Diomedes and husband of Deipyle. He was a son of Oeneus and Periboea. He was one of the Seven Against Thebes; during the battle to take the city, he was killed by Melanippus. In the Iliad, Homer makes such frequent and detailed references to the exploits of Tydeus (in connection with his son) that some commentators have speculated that Homer must have composed an ...

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In Greek mythology, Argea (or Argeia) was a daughter of King Adrastus of Argos. She was married to Polynices, the exiled king of Thebes. Sources include: Apollodorus 3.6.1 Euripides in The Phoenician Women and Suppliants, who mentions the wedding without giving her name. Hyginus, who in his Fabulae (Latin) calls her Argia. Robert Graves in his popular The Greek Myths (106c) prefers the spelling Aegeia. Other related

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