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One myth had the city founded by Agenor, which gave rise to the (now somewhat obscure) name "Agenorids" to denote Thebans. Archaeological excavations in and around Thebes have revealed a Mycenaean settlement and clay tablets written in the Linear B script, indicating the importance of the site in the Bronze Age.
Cadmus founded or refounded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honour. He is also credited with the foundation of several cities in Illyria, like Bouthoe and Lychnidus.
The Egyptian name for Thebes was wꜣs.t, "City of the wꜣs", the sceptre of the pharaohs, a long staff with an animal's head and a forked base.From the end of the New Kingdom, Thebes was known in Egyptian as njw.t-jmn, the "City of Amun", the chief of the Theban Triad of deities whose other members were Mut and Khonsu.
Stater of the Boeotian League minted c. 364-362 BC by Epaminondas, whose name EΠ-AMI is inscribed on the reverse. Epaminondas (/ ɪ ˌ p æ m ɪ ˈ n ɒ n d ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐπαμεινώνδας; 419/411–362 BC) was a Greek general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a pre-eminent ...
Thebes, Akhetaten (1351–1334) BC: Common languages: Middle Egyptian (to c. 1350 BC) ... Dynasty XVIII was founded by Ahmose I, the brother or son of Kamose, ...
Amphion and Zethus built fortifications of Thebes. [5] They built the walls around the Cadmea, the citadel of Thebes at the command of Apollo. [6] While Zethus struggled to carry his stones, Amphion played his lyre and his stones followed after him and gently glided into place. [7] Amphion married Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus, the Lydian king.
Thebes or Thebae may refer to one of the following places: Thebes, Egypt, capital of Egypt under the 11th, early 12th, 17th and early 18th Dynasties; Thebes, Greece, a city in Boeotia; Phthiotic Thebes or Thessalian Thebes, an ancient city at Nea Anchialos; Thebae (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia, now in Turkey; Thebes (Ionia), in Asia Minor
Ogyges is also known as king of the Ectenes, who according to Pausanias were the first inhabitants of Boeotia, where the city of Thebes would later be founded. [11] As such, he became the first ruler of Thebes, which was, in that early time, named Ogygia (Ὠγυγία) after him.