Thebans
Thebans
Greeks native to Thebes.
Places
Events
- The Thebans give a child every month to the Cadmean Vixen
- Erginus attacks Thebes for a second time
- Dionysus compels the women of Thebes to go up Cithaeron
- Sphinx asks her riddle of the Thebans, eating those who give the wrong answer
- Oracle tells Thebans they will be free of the Sphinx when they solve her riddle
- Tydeus challenges Thebans to single combat and beats all he faces
- Thebans send 50 men to ambush Tydeus
- Tydeus kills all of the Thebans who ambush him except Maeon
- Eteocles arms the Thebans and assigns a leader to each gate
- Eteocles consults seers to learn how the Thebans might win the war
- Thebans consult Tiresias about the war
- Tiresias says the Thebans will be victorious if Menoeceus is sacrificed
- The Thebans are chased back to the walls
- Eteocles and Polynices kill each other
- The Thebans flee from Thebes
- Tiresias advises the Thebans in their conflict with the Argives
- The Thebans send a herald to make a treaty with the Argives
- The Thebans found and live in Hestiaea
- Ptolemy wages war against the Thebans
Citations
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.7
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.9
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.11
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.2
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.5
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.8
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 6.5
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 6.6
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 6.7
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 7.3
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 7.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 9.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 13.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 23.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 38.8
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 39.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 42.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 5.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 6.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 7.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 10.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 5.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 5.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 5.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.8
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.10
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.12
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 10.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 1.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 26.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 26.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 27.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 27.10
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 28.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 32.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 32.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 32.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 34.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 3.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 3.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 18.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 2.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 14.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 14.7
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 15.9
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 6.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 8.10
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 10.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 11.9
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 27.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 27.9
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 35.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 50.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 1.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 1.7
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 1.8
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 3.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 5.9
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 5.13
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 5.16
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 6.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 6.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 6.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 7.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 7.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 7.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 8.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 9.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 9.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 9.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 9.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 10.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 11.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 11.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 11.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 12.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 12.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 12.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 13.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 13.8
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 13.9
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 13.11
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 13.12
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 14.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 15.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 15.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 15.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 16.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 16.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 17.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 17.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 18.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 18.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 18.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 19.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 19.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 19.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 23.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 25.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 25.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 25.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 25.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 29.8
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 29.9
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 37.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 37.8
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 38.7
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 40.10
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 2.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 2.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 3.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 10.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 11.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 13.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 35.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 36.3
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