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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thebes (Thebais Secunda)
		Thebes grew by degrees, and as early as the twelfth dynasty its sovereigns dominated Egypt.
		Thebes continued under the pharaohs of the eighteenth and especially those of the nineteenth dynasty, who extended their domination to the sources of the Euphrates.
		Thebes had become degenerate they were replaced by the priests of the god Amon, who constituted themselves the twenty-first dynasty.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14562c.htm (793 words)

	Thebes - Crystalinks
		Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain.
		The record of the earliest days of Thebes was preserved among the Greeks in an abundant mass of legends which rival the myths of Troy in their wide ramification and the influence which they exerted upon the literature of the classical age.
		Philip was content to deprive Thebes of her dominion over Boeotia; but an unsuccessful revolt in 335 against his son Alexander was punished by Macedon and other Greek states by the severe sacking of the city, except, according to tradition, the house of the poet Pindar.
	www.crystalinks.com /thebes.html (1180 words)

	House of Thebes
		Thebes was a principal city in the valley of southern Boeotia, between north of Cithaeron Mountains and southeast of Lake Copaïs (Copais).
		Thebes was also one of the prominent cities during classical period, where it enjoyed a brief supremacy in Greece during the 4th century, under military leadership of Epaminondas and Pelopidas, where they defeated the Spartan armies in Leuctra (371 BC) and Mantinea (362 BC).
		Genealogy: House of Thebes and the Houses of Seers.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/thebes.html (4334 words)

	Thebes \| Tebas, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Thebes is a city in southern Boeotia, the region north and west of Attica.
		Thebes was founded by Cadmus, who occupied the land, in Boeotia, that until then had belonged to the Ectenes, ruled by Ogygus.
		Nycteus 2 returned to Thebes as a dying man, but before passing away he appointed as his successor his own brother Lycus 5, for Labdacus 1 was still a child.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Thebes.html (3162 words)

	Thebes (Egypt) - MSN Encarta
		As the biblical name of Thebes indicates, the local deity of the city was Amon, originally the Egyptian god of the reproductive forces and, later as Amon-Ra, the “father of the gods.” The ruined Temple of Amon, which ranks among the best-preserved and most magnificent structures of Egyptian antiquity, is at Al Karnak.
		Thebes was reestablished as the seat of the Egyptian government shortly after the death of Akhenaton.
		Thebes was destroyed by the Romans late in the 1st century bc.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558199/Thebes_(Egypt).html (494 words)

	Thebes, Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thebes (in Demotic Greek: Θήβα — Thíva, Katharevousa: Θῆβαι — Thēbai or Thívai) is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain.
		The record of the earliest days of Thebes was preserved among the Greeks in an abundant mass of legends which rival the myths of Troy in their wide ramification and the influence which they exerted upon the literature of the classical age.
		Philip was content to deprive Thebes of her dominion over Boeotia; but an unsuccessful revolt in 335 against his son Alexander was punished by Macedon and other Greek states by the severe sacking of the city, except, according to tradition, the house of the poet Pindar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thebes,_Greece (1549 words)

	Thebes, Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thebes (Θῆβαι, Thēbai) is the Greek designation of the ancient Egyptian niwt "(The) City" and niwt-rst "(The) Southern City".
		Thebes was the capital of Waset, the fourth Upper Egyptian nome (the term "Waset" was used for the name of the city as well).
		In modern usage, the mortuary temples and tombs on the west bank of the river Nile are generally thought of as being part of Thebes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thebes,_Egypt (460 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thebes (Achaia Secunda)
		The city was founded by the Phoenician Cadmus in the sixteenth century B.C., afterwards made illustrious by the legends of Laius, Œdipus, and of Antigone, the rivalry of Eteocles and Polynices, and the unfortunate siege by the seven chiefs of
		Thebes was an autocephalous archbishopric at the beginning of the tenth century and until 970 (Gelzer, "Ungedruckte.
		Thebes was reduced to the rank of bishopric with the title of Boeotia; since 1882 the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14562b.htm (477 words)

	Thebes Index
		Thebes was not the administrative capital of Egypt, but it ranked first in religious terms from the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC) onwards.
		The kings of the New Kingdom were buried in Thebes, and the temple of Amun is one of the most important in the country.
		In the First Intermediate Period the town became important because one of the ruling families was from Thebes.
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /thebes/index.html (112 words)

	Thebes
		Thebes was the largest and richest city of Boeotia, owing to the fertility of its territory.
		Thebes was also the birthplace of Heracles, at a time when his mother Alcmene and her husband Amphitryon, both grandchildren of Perseus where in exile there at the court of Creon.
		It was the failed attempt by Thebes, a few years later, in 431, in violation of the Thirty Year Peace of 446 between Athens and Sparta, to recapture the Boeotian city of Platæa, which had remained a faithful ally of Athens, which marked the start of the Peloponesian war (see Thucydides, II, 2, sq).
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/thebes.htm (4073 words)

	History of Thebes
		Before his death, he appointed as regent of Thebes his brother Lykos and made him promise to raise an even larger army and take vengeance and punish his daughter, in case that she was taken.
		The city of Thebes, which had not taken any serious part in the Peloponnesian war, was prospering but as was usual with all the Greek cities, was torn inside from the fights of oligarchs and democrats.
		In Arcadia, an ally of Thebes, king Agesilaos of Sparta was ravaging its territories.
	www.sikyon.com /Thebes/history_eg.html (5121 words)

	Thebes - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Thebes is rich in associations with Greek legend and religion (see Oedipus ; the Seven against Thebes ; Epigoni).
		When the Persians were defeated, Thebes was punished, and only the intervention of Sparta, which saw in the city a balance to the power of Athens, saved it from destruction.
		Thebes supported Sparta against Athens in the Peloponnesian War but, fearing Spartan territorial ambitions, withdrew this support and joined (394 BC) the confederation against Sparta.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ThebesGr.html (281 words)

	Thebes
		Thebes lied on the east side of the Nile, in the centre of today's Egypt, 700 km south of modern Cairo.
		With the attack of the Assyrians in 661, Thebes was sacked.
		Thebes has some of the best preserved monuments of Ancient Egypt, even if the old settlement is now covered by modern houses.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/thebes.htm (246 words)

	Thebes
		Amenemhet I 12th Dynasty moved his capital to Lisht in Fayum, Thebes took the role as the religious center of the nation, as its god Amun was promoted to principal state deity.
		As the New Kingdom began to decay and the locus of power to shift to the Nile delta, Thebes went into decline.
		Thebes was sacked by the Assyrians in 661 B.C., an event referred to in the Bible (Nah.
	www.aldokkan.com /geography/thebes.htm (233 words)

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		Thebes was a considerable settlement in geometric and archaic times and during the classical period gained "the hegemony" over the rest of Greece (371-362 B.C.).
		From the seven mythological gates of Thebes, whose names (often more than seven) are known from the tradition, only the entrance between the two circular towers of the Electran Gates are preserved today.
		S.Symeonoglou, The Topography of Thebes, Princeton 1985 (with bibliography).
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21109a/e211ia14.html (595 words)

	Thebes, city of ancient Egypt. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		At Thebes, also, was the necropolis in the Valley of the Tombs where the kings and nobles were entombed in great splendor in crypts cut into the cliffs on the Nile’s west bank.
		The city’s greatest period was that of the empire, when it served as a reservoir for the immense wealth that poured in from the conquered countries.
		The temples and tombs that have survived, including the tombs of Tutankhamen and of Ramses II’s sons, are among the most splendid in the world, and the site has been the scene of much important archaeological work.
	www.bartleby.com /65/th/ThebesEg.html (321 words)

	SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		So, on the matter of intervention in Thebes, the opinions of the Argives were almost as divided as Argos itself, for at that time there were in Argos three kingdoms, the kings being Adrastus 1, Amphiaraus, and Iphis 1.
		And while Eteocles 1 sat in his precarious throne at Thebes, and was suspected of being a man who breaks his promises because of his power ambitions, his brother Polynices, who succeeded in raising an army to defend his own rights, was now suspected of wishing to cause his own native land's destruction.
		Capaneus, counted as the assailant of the Electran (Ogygian) Gate at Thebes, was son of Hipponous 1 and Astynome 1, daughter of King Talaus of Argos.
	www.maicar.com /GML/SEVENAGAINST.html (2676 words)

	Egypt: Thebes, A Feature Tour Egypt Story
		The site of Thebes includes areas on both the eastern bank of the Nile, where the temples of Karnak and Luxor stand, and the western bank, where are the large private and royal cemeteries and funerary complexes.
		Although the capital was moved, Thebes took on a new role as the religious center of the nation, as its god Amun was promoted to principal state deity.
		Most of the temples on the west side of the Nile were royal mortuary temples to maintain the cult of the deceased kings buried in their tombs cut in the cliffs further west.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/thebes.htm (1647 words)

	Greek Travelogue - Thebes
		The center of Thebes is isolated on a pear-shaped plateau, a kilometer long, half a kilometer wide and sloping downward to the north, the top of the pear.
		Thebes was a significant commercial and political center during the Bronze Age and may have exceeded Mycenae in importance.
		I imagine Thebes falling in the evening, the warriors swarming over the walls and through the gates, the city burning all night and the next morning, the fl charcoal still smoldering, pieces of huge wood beams standing stark and fl against the morning sky, a midnight flness the sun could not erase.
	greek-myth.com /Pale_Horse/thebes.htm (9721 words)

	Ifrits, The Ghosts of Thebes
		Also spelled afreet, afrit, afrite, or efreet, Arabic (male) 'ifrit, or (female) 'ifritah in Islamic mythology, ifrits are one of the most power of the infernal jinn (spirits below the level of angels and devils) noted for their strength and cunning.
		As his eyes adjusted to the candle-lit dimness of the roughly hewn corridors, he found himself confronting the massed remains of 50 different burials, among them the coffins and mummies of some of the greatest rulers from ancient Egypt's glorious past.
		Hence, we may never really be bothered by ifrits ourselves, their introduction to the tombs of Thebes may have at least saved a few robberies.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/afrit.htm (1629 words)

	Oriental Institute \| Tom Van Eynde: Thebes Photographic Project
		The aim of the project is to record the topography of the ancient sites in their present state, as well as, the interrelationships that they form with the landscape.
		Luxor, the modern name for the ancient city of Thebes, has, since the time of the ancient Greeks, been a favorite destination for travelers, as well as Egyptologists.
		Thebes, being the religious center of ancient Egypt, has the greatest concentration of major ancient sites in the world.
	www-oi.uchicago.edu /OI/TVE_TPP/TVE_TPP.html (852 words)

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		According to our research there were 4 registered sex offenders living in Thebes, Illinois in early 2007.
		The ratio of number of residents in Thebes to the number of sex offenders is 108 to 1.
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