Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-09-22
Type: BOOK
In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, acclaimed classicist and historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements—whether ...
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-06-26
Type: BOOK
Thebes offers a scholarly survey of the history and archaeology of the city, from 1600 BCE – 476 CE. Discussions of major developments in politics, war, society and culture form the basis of a chronological examination of one of ...
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Type: BOOK
... Theban affairs even with the inescapable fact of incest, of “vnkynde blood.” As we shall see, this flexibility proves pivotal to Lydgate's reappraisal of Theban history in the remainder of the Siege. Part I of the Siege of Thebes has ...
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
Published: 2015-06-25
Type: BOOK
His name is TUTANKHAMUN. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Allen Drury paints a vivid, dramatic picture of the most tumultuous times in one of the greatest empires in human history.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-06-08
Type: BOOK
Romm's dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male ...
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-04-28
Type: BOOK
The choachytes (or morticians) of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes provided a rich documentation linking the city of the living on one side of the Nile with the city of the dead on the other.
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2007-12-18
Type: BOOK
Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian history–ancient Egypt’s defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-12
Type: BOOK
This book shows how the legendary past of Greek Thebes influenced the development of the city's landscape from the time of the oral epics to the Roman period.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Type: BOOK
This book is a comprehensive treatment of the development of Thebes as documented by archaeological and historical evidence and the literary tradition.
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Type: BOOK
A young Egyptian girl, whose brother secretly taught her to read and write, accuses her uncle of stealing grain from the temple and must run away from Thebes to survive.
