place
Thebes
also: Θῆβαι, Θήβη
The chief city of Boeotia, founded by Cadmus; birthplace of Dionysus and (by tradition) Heracles, and, in Hymn 3, described as uninhabited forest before its founding, when Apollo passed through on his way to Delphi.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §1.1 Thebes
The chief city of Boeotia, founded by Cadmus; birthplace of Dionysus and (by tradition) Heracles, and, in Hymn 3, described as uninhabited forest before its founding, when Apollo passed through on his way to Delphi.
- The Odyssey §11.253 Thebes
The seven-gated Boeotian city that Amphion and Zethus founded and walled. It is also where Oedipus went on ruling in pain after Epicaste's death, as Odysseus learns from the shades.