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The A1 motorway and the Athens–Thessaloniki railway connect Thebes with Athens and northern Greece. The municipality of Thebes covers an area of 830.112 km 2 (320.508 sq mi), the municipal unit of Thebes 321.015 km 2 (123.945 sq mi) and the community 143.889 km 2 (55.556 sq mi).
13th century Frankish tower at Oinoi. The first duke of Athens (as well as of Thebes, at first) was Otto de la Roche, a minor Burgundian knight of the Fourth Crusade.Although he was known as the "Duke of Athens" from the foundation of the duchy in 1205, the title did not become official until 1260.
Theseus, King of Athens, led an army against Thebes and compelled Creon to give the fallen heroes the correct rites. When Eteocles' son Laodamas came of age, Creon resigned the rule to him. Like his father, King Laodamas was confronted with an attack by the Epigoni , the sons of the Seven led by Polynices' son Thersander .
In Greek mythology, Mecisteus (/ m ə ˈ s ɪ s ˌ t (j) uː s /; Ancient Greek: Μηκιστεύς Mēkisteús) was the son of Talaus and Lysimache. He was the father of Euryalus [ 1 ] by Astyoche .
The earliest surviving record of the Sacred Band by name was in 324 BC, in the oration Against Demosthenes by the Athenian logographer Dinarchus.He mentions the Sacred Band as being led by the general Pelopidas and, alongside Epaminondas who commanded the army of Thebes (Boeotia), were responsible for the defeat of the Spartans at the decisive Battle of Leuctra (371 BC).
ɒ n / (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίων, romanized: Amphíōn)) and Zethus (/ ˈ z iː θ ə s /; Ζῆθος Zēthos) were, in ancient Greek mythology, the twin sons of Zeus (or Theobus) [2] by Antiope. They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, because they constructed the city's walls. Zethus or ...
Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη) is a feminine name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them: Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt. [1] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Proteus, [2] or Libys, son of Epirus.
Crates (Ancient Greek: Κράτης ὁ Θηβαῖος; c. 365 – c. 285 BC [1]) of Thebes was a Greek Cynic philosopher, [2] the principal pupil of Diogenes of Sinope [2] and the husband of Hipparchia of Maroneia who lived in the same manner as him. [3] Crates gave away his money to live a life of poverty on the streets of Athens.