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	Trojan War cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trojan War cycle, also widely known as the Epic Cycle, was a collection of eight Ancient Greek epic poems that related the history of the Trojan War.
		The phrase "Epic Cycle" is sometimes used of a longer cycle that included the Titanomachy, the Theban Cycle, and the Trojan cycle, but is widely used to refer to just the Trojan cycle.
		A longer Epic Cycle included the Titanomachy and the Theban cycle, which in turn comprised the Oedipodea, the Thebaid, the Epigoni and the Alcmeonis, as well as the Trojan War cycle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trojan_War_cycle (776 words)

	CYCLE - LoveToKnow Article on CYCLE
		It is this use which has given rise to the application of the term cycle to a series of prose or poetical romances which have for a centre one subject, whether a person, as in the Alexander, Arthurian or Charlemagne cycles, or an object, such as the ring of the Nibelungenlied.
		The most important poems of the Trojan legendary cycle are the Cypria of Stasinus (q.v.); the Aethiopis and Iliou Persis (Sack of Troy) of Arctinus (q.v.); the Little Iliad of Lesches (q.v.); the Nosli of Hagias or Agias; the Telegonia of Eugammon.
		To the Theban cycle belong: the Thebais or Expedition of A mphiaraus and the Epigoni of Antimachus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CY/CYCLE.htm (703 words)

	Background for Antigone
		Delphi, whether he and his wife Jocasta would have a son, the oracle replied that they would, but that this son was destined to kill his father.
		When the Theban herdsman finally made his way back to the city, he saw that the man who had killed his master was now king, so he asked to be assigned to an outlying pasture far from the city.
		The Delphic oracle proclaimed that Thebes was harboring a pollution, the murderer of Laius, and the sickness would not leave until this pollution was cast from the land.
	www.cnr.edu /home/bmcmanus/antigonebg.html (769 words)

	House of Thebes
		When the Thebans heard that Oedipus had solved the riddle and got ridded of the monster that had troubled their land, Creon gave the kingship to the young hero and unwittingly married his sister Jocasta to her own son.
		Clearly, the last two works in the Theban cycle told by Sophocles, was to bolster the greatness of the Athenian hero, Theseus, and Athens' place in the Seven Against Thebes myth.
		Genealogy: House of Thebes and the Houses of Seers.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/thebes.html (4286 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Egypt
		The cycle of the Sothic periods has been established in different ways by various scholars, with slight variations in the years of beginning of the several periods (see Ginzel, "Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie", 187 sqq.).
		This is in particular the case for the Seventh and Eighth dynasties (Memphites), the Ninth and Tenth (Heracleopolites), the Eleventh (Theban -- contemporary with the Tenth), the Thirteenth (Theban) and the Fourteenth (Xoite -- in part simultaneous), the Fifteenth, and the Sixteenth (Hyksos), and the Seventeenth Dynasty (Theban -- partly contemporary with the Sixteenth.
		In some cases the second element was a mere grammatical duplicate of the first, as Ament, wife of Amen (Amon), and was considered as one with it; it was then natural to identify the son with his parents, and so arose the concept of one god in three forms.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05329b.htm (18387 words)

	Domain of Culture - Cultural Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Coming from different theater traditions, these of No and Kabuki, of Meyerhold, Stanislavsky and Brecht, the four directors close inside a cycle the results of their work and try to prove that the research and the renewal consist the other side of antiquity and tradition.
		The Theban Cycle plays will be also presented abroad (Vienna, Berlin, Edinburg, Dusseldorf and elsewhere), and accompanied by symposia and exhibitions.
		The Theban Cycle at Epidaurus starts a week after the conclusion of the Theban Cycle at Delphi (July 5-12), a meeting on ancient Greek drama that is being organized for the 11th time, and focuses on the themes presented by the Theban Cycle of plays.
	www.cultureguide.gr /events/details.jsp?Event_id=30207&catA=14 (281 words)

	An earlier draft of Chapter II of The medieval tradition of Thebes : history and narrative in the OF Roman de Thèbes, ...
		By contrast, the OF poet’s blending of Theban matters with Trojan history had a lasting impact on the medieval tradition of Thebes, and, in fact, lies at the heart of the next vernacular Theban narrative, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Il Teseida, a poem set in the period between the Theban and Trojan wars.
		Additionally, he distinguishes the opposing sides of the conflict at Thebes as “the Greeks” and “the Thebans” (despite the fact that the Thebans are Greek) in imitation of the later conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans.
		Boccaccio transforms Theban history ostensibly through the intervention of romance: his heroes fall in love, are changed by that love and subsequently alter their actions.
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/db.htm (13566 words)

	OEDIPUS - THE TRAGEDIES OF THE THEBAN CYCLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The Sphinx was a monster with a woman’s head and breasts, the body of a lion, an eagle’s wings, iron talons and a tail which ended in a dragon’s jaws.
		This creature was the daughter of Typhoon and Echidne, and the Thebans lived in terror of her.
		Her claws could tear men and animals to shreds, and many a brave young fellow who had found the courage to challenge her had died in the attempt.
	www.sigmabooks.gr /PocketBooks/pocket_8En.htm (345 words)

	oedip-story.html
		Thebes, the native city of Dionysus and a center of his cult, is also close to the central oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
		The Theban cycle comprises the stories of the doomed kings and ghastly, cult-oriented passions.
		Theban dynasty succession: Cadmus - fought a dragon; founded Thebes; married Harmonia, daughter of Ares, whose necklace brought a curse; in old age, they turned into huge snakes.
	mason.gmu.edu /~oarans/oedip-story.html (2153 words)

	Egypt: Grand Festivals in Ancient Egypt
		Hence, during the historical period, there were actually two separate Wagy feasts, one set according to the cycle of the moon and a later one firmly placed at day eighteen of the first civil month.
		Centered in Thebes, this boisterous festival was held in the second civil month and was set according to a lunar calendar.
		Theban citizens and their guests from afar celebrated the fruitful link between their pharaoh and the almighty god, Amun, who in the New Kingdom became a state god.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/festival.htm (2689 words)

	HYPERBOREANS - LoveToKnow Article on HYPERBOREANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Their name does not occur in the Iliad or the Odyssey, but Herodotur (iv.
		32) states ihat they were mentioned in Hesiodand in th Epigoni, an epic of the Theban cycle.
		According to Herodotus two maidens, Opis and Arge, and later two others, Hyperochi and Laodice, escorted by five men, called by the Delians Per pheres, were sent by the Hyperboreans with certain offering to Delos.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HY/HYPERBOREANS.htm (529 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 650 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		It may also be clearly inferred from the fragments, that declamation and pathos formed a characteristic attribute of Roman tragedy, which was intensified by a studied archaism of expression.
		Moreover, the titles of their plays that have come down to us show that preference was given to subjects relating to the Trojan epic cycle; this is to be explained by the Trojan origin claimed by the Romans.
		Next to this the most popular were the myths of the Pelopidse, of the Theban cycle, and of the Argonauts.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0653.html (764 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.04.35
		West organizes the material into four main categories: the Theban cycle, the Trojan cycle, poems on Heracles and Theseus, and genealogical and antiquarian epics, including the Carmen Naupactium and poems ascribed in antiquity to Eumelus.
		Bethe identified the scholium as a citation of unlikely relation to the cycle (Homer.
		Nevertheless, since this poem was sometimes attributed to Eumelus in antiquity and since its possible incorporation into the epic cycle would certainly have occurred after the 5th century B.C., it seems legitimate to print its fragments together with those of the other works assigned to Eumelus rather than anywhere else.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-04-35.html (2869 words)

	Behind the North Wind by Lin Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Homer, who was pretty vague on geographic theory, never mentioned the land of the Hyperboreans, but the historian Herodotus did (IV, 36), and he recorded that Hesiod mentioned it, as did a lost epic in the Theban cycle called the Epigoni.
		The most popular writer in Weird Tales at this time was H. Lovecraft, who had by then published about twenty-two of his horror stories, and this may have been the factor that made Smith.decide to try his hand at writing a series for the magazine.
		The Hyperborean cycle is second only to Smith's tales of the Last Continent, which I collected into a book called Zothique, published in 1970 by Ballantine Books.
	www.eldritchdark.com /misc/behind_the_north_wind.html (1397 words)

	Apollodorus on the Oedipus Myth
		For Hera sent the Sphinx, whose mother was Echidna and her father Typhon; and she had the face of a woman, the breast and feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird.
		And having learned a riddle from the Muses, she sat on Mount Phicium, and propounded it to the Thebans.
		Now the Thebans were in possession of an oracle which declared that they should be rid of the Sphinx whenever they had read her riddle; so they often met and discussed the answer, and when they could not find it the Sphinx used to snatch away one of them and gobble him up.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /cciv110x/antigone/apollodorus_antigone.htm (871 words)

	AthensNews onLine SEARCH
		Seven Against Thebes (467BC) is the third and only surviving tragedy of Aeschylus' Theban Cycle trilogy - also comprising Laius and Oedipus - and followed by the satirical drama Sphinx.
		Heading a troupe of seven chieftains, Polyneices organises an operation to conquer the seven gates of Thebes defended by seven Theban champions.
		At the seventh gate, the royal brothers are killed each by the other's hand, thus realising a curse on the House of Laius after he defied a Delphic oracle not to have children as well as their father's malediction condemning them to divide their inheritance by the sword.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12923&m=A39&aa=1&eidos=S (558 words)

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		This course investigates both ancient and modern dramatic interpretations of two myth cycles: the Theban Saga and the Mycenean Saga.
		Emphasis is placed on the versatility of myth: the ways in which an individual myth may be transformed to accomodate the purposes of different dramatists and various cultural contexts.
		Analyze in depth one major character found in two different dramatic presentations of the Theban Saga and compare and contrast the manner in which he or she is represented in each.
	www.tulane.edu /~spaeth/myth/MetMyth.Syll.html (689 words)

	6 Seven Against Thebes
		The Seven (Septem) was produced in 467 B.C. It is the only extant play of the Theban trilogy: Laius, Oedipus, Seven against Thebes.
		There are references to the earlier parts of the story in the Seven itself: notice references to the oracle (lines 734ff.) and to the curse (throughout).
		Summary of the Theban Cycle as it relates to the Seven:
	www.class.uidaho.edu /luschnig/GTC/6.htm (438 words)

	Artificial Eye -Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		At first I planned on making a single film which would perhaps be entitled TRILOGY and would be based on the Theban cycle, i.e.
		With this rationale my producers and I came up with the idea of an actual trilogy with three separate films, which would also be more in keeping with the meaning of a trilogy as well as the reference to the Theban cycle.
		The character of Eleni is the embodiment of the refugee, the exile, the wandering person, the dispossessed.
	www.artificial-eye.com /weepingmeadow/more2.html (1446 words)

	Gail Holst on Theodorakis's Antigone
		In the Theban cycle, Creon and Eteocles, in the composer’s view, represent the dark side of humanity, whereas Oedipus has been singled out for punishment by the forces of evil.
		If there is a mythic theme that has a special resonance for the Greeks who lived and suffered through the Civil War, it is the fratricide of the Theban cycle.
		The clash between Oedipus and the chorus of Theban elders is highlighted not only by the angular music, but by the clash of male voices, ranging from Oedipus’ bass, to the Chorus leader’s bass baritone and the full range of male voices in the choral sections.
	www.mikis-theodorakis.net /gh_antigone.html (2635 words)

	Summaries of the Trojan Cycle, Greek Mythology Link.
		Some of these fragments contain details about the Theban wars (the war of the SEVEN and that of the EPIGONI), others about the prowesses of Heracles 1 and Theseus, others about the origin of the gods, and still others about events related to the Trojan War.
		The latter, called "Trojan Cycle", narrate events that occurred before the war (Cypria), during the war (Aethiopis, Little Iliad, and Sack of Ilium), and after the war (Returns, and Telegony).
		Since the legends of the Theban wars and the Trojan War represent two different constellations of events, we may then say that the "Epic Cycle" (epikòs kúklos) contains both a "Theban Cycle" and a "Trojan Cycle".
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/TCSummaries.html (5695 words)

	Hellenic Cultural Heritage S.A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		In December events will be organised with a view to preparing the public for the Theban Cycle (Drama Olympiad) that will take place in the summer of 2002.
		The Theban Cycle is organised by the Drama Olympiad and the Greek Festival.
		In December: Discussion - critical assesment of the exhibition with the participating architects and the students and teachers of the post-graduate program of the Architectural Association, to take place in the metro station of Syntagma Square.
	hch.culture.gr /4/2001/12_en.html (607 words)

	Hellenic Cultural Heritage S.A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Following his Medea, Electra and Antigone, Mikis Theodorakis has now brought his tetralogy on ancient drama to completion with Lysistrata, a work devoted to the ideals of peace and reconciliation.
		Their intoxication seems idyllic, but at the slightest disturbance they turn into beasts: if villagers come too close to them they tear their livestock to pieces with their bare hands and plunder and ravage their villages.
		Pentheus, the ruler, sees Dionysos as a danger to the accomplishments of Theban culture: life in both the city and the countryside is being thoroughly disrupted.
	hch.culture.gr /4/2002/12_en.html (1075 words)

	Cultural Olympiad 2001 - 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		In the land where drama first appeared and flourished producing works that have had a major influence on man’s intellectual development ever since, perhaps more so even than epic and myth, classical theater continues to haunt and stimulate contemporary audiences, demonstrating its ability to bear the weight of time and convey deeply human messages.
		In 2002, the Cultural Olympiad will be presenting a program devoted to the Theban Cycle of works, with ambitious productions being staged alongside meetings, workshops, recitations by actors and experimental performances.
		The Delphi meeting on ancient Greek drama is being organized for the 11th time, and will focus on the themes presented by the Theban Cycle of plays.
	www.cultural-olympiad.gr /4/43/433_en.html (664 words)

	The Theban Plays
		A compliation of the three plays of Sophocles’ Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus by scholar Ruby Blondell.
		This volume combines updated versions of my translations of Sophocles’ three Theban plays, which have already been published as separate volumes.
		Oidipous at Colonus appears in its second edition, which was heavily revised from the first.
	www.pullins.com /Books/00374ThebPlaysBlon.htm (694 words)

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		The error has been aggravated by a loose way of speaking of 'the Theban Trilogy', a term which could only be properly applicable if the three dramas had been produced in the same year.
		Thus the struggle is intensified, and both her strength and her desolation become more impressive, while the opposing claims of civic authority and domestic piety are more vividly realized, because either is separately embodied in an individual will.
		The Argives in his case, as the Thebans in the case of Oedipus, are blind to the real intentions of the Gods.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/4/4/8/14484/14484.txt (19671 words)

	ECM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The first part of a projected trilogy, the movie, like much of Angelopoulos’s work is multi-levelled, as well as being a potted history of the 20th century it is also a meditation on the meaning of “free will” amid social upheaval and political intrigue, on the interweaving of personal destiny and geopolitical realities.
		And there’s a mythical dimension, too, with echoes of Oedipus, the Theban cycle myths, and Antigone.
		If the characters in his films struggle to find and define freedom for themselves, Theo Angelopoulos’s preferred soundtrack composer has always had more liberty - which may be one reason why the association with Eleni Karaindrou has continued for more than two decades.
	www.ecmrecords.com /Background/Background_1885.php (987 words)

	Bibliography of Classical Myths
		Also found in this book are Homeric Hymns and the Epic Cycles.
		All these works (Epic Cycle) can be found in one volume; see Hesiod for detail about the book.
		Quintus filled in the details of the Epic Cycle, from the arrival of the Amazons, after Hector's death to the Sack of Troy and the destruction of the Greek fleet.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/lib-greek.html (1891 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Three Theban Plays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
		These are uniquely remarkable plays that have obviously stood the test of time (2,500 years and counting) though, sadly, are often muddled in the mythology of their source.
		They are based on Theban myths already old when Sophocles adapted them and are unified only in their focus on the family of Oedipus, and in their temporal economy: there is no legendary "cycle".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140444254?v=glance (1565 words)

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