The Thebaid or Thebais (Greek: Θηβαΐς, Thēbaïs) was a region in ancient Egypt, comprising the 13 southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos to Aswan...
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Look up Thebaid or Thebais in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Thebaid, or Thebais, was a region of ancient Egypt. Thebaid or Thebais may also refer...
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The Thebaid (/ˈθiːbeɪ.ɪd/; Latin: Thēbaïs, lit. 'Song of Thebes') is a Latin epic poem written by the Roman poet Statius. Published in the early 90s AD...
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Statius (section The Thebaid)
century CE. His surviving poetry includes an epic in twelve books, the Thebaid; a collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae; and an unfinished epic...
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The Thebaid or Thebais (Greek: Θηβαΐς, Thēbais), also called the Cyclic Thebaid, is an Ancient Greek epic poem of uncertain authorship (see Cyclic poets)...
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Thebaid 1.514–720. Statius, Thebaid 2.152–200. Statius, Thebaid 2.363–451. Statius, Thebaid 2.482–743. Statius, Thebaid 3.324–386. Statius, Thebaid 3...
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Hypsipyle (section The Thebaid)
Bravo, p. 120; Statius, Thebaid 4.785–789. Statius, Thebaid 5.1–27. Statius, Thebaid 5.28–498. Bravo, p. 120; Statius, Thebaid 5.499–504. Bravo, pp. 120–121;...
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The Thebaid is a tempera on canvas painting by Paolo Uccello, executed c. 1460, also known as Scenes from the Lives of the Saints and Monks and The Life...
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Northern Thebaid (Russian: Северная Фиваида), is the poetic name of the northern Russian lands surrounding Vologda and Belozersk, appeared as a comparison...
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Qena (redirect from Maximianopolis (Thebaid))
Qena (Arabic: قنا Qinā [ˈʔenæ], locally: [ˈɡena]; Coptic: ⲕⲱⲛⲏ Konē) is a city in Upper Egypt, and the capital of the Qena Governorate. Situated on the...
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Theban Cycle (section Thebaid)
opening poem of the Theban Cycle. The Thebaid: contain 7,000 verses, also known as Thebais or the Cyclic Thebaid. It is an ancient Greek epic whose author's...
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"the story is in the Cyclic poets", a reference perhaps to the Cyclic Thebaid. The Hesiodic Shield of Heracles also has "the great horse, black-maned...
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and death. This relationship is very clear in Roman epics like Statius's Thebaid, where they are mentioned taking souls to be judged by Hades and inflicting...
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the Jews Statius, Thebaid, 6. 837, 10. 249 Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Amathous Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Gaza Statius, Thebaid, 6. 346 Servius on...
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Bibliotheca excerpts, 190.14 Nonnus, 14.67 ff. Statius, Thebaid 4.804 & 8.445 Statius, Thebaid 9.758 Homer, Odyssey 17.292 ff Antoninus Liberalis, The...
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Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog–Mouse...
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Diodorus Siculus, 5.48.5 & 49.1; Pindar, Pythian Odes 3.167; Statius, Thebaid 2.266; compare Hesiod, Theogony 934; Homeric Hymn to Apollo 195 (cited...
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at the Perseus Project. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface. Statius, Thebaid 10.90 ff. Statius, Thebaid 10.86–92 This article incorporates text from this source,...
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she is eventually killed (72). Just as the Cyclic Thebaid had been, the Latin poet Statius's Thebaid (c. 92 AD), is devoted entirely to the story of the...
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had fought and been killed in the first Theban war, the subject of the Thebaid, in which Polynices and his allies attacked Thebes because Polynices' brother...
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Tartarus in the Underworld, warning others not to despise the gods. In the Thebaid of Statius, Phlegyas is also shown to be in the Underworld entombed in...
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cutting of hair and the undressing of garments at the altar. Statius in Thebaid (1st century) describes the altar to Clementia in Athens (treating Eleos...
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authority Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 23 Apollodorus, 1.9.14; Statius, Thebaid 4.136 Pausanias, 10.26.1 Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an...
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Thoas (son of Jason) (section Statius' Thebaid)
mentions a "wine-dark grape-bunch". Statius, Thebaid 5.463–464. Statius, Thebaid 5.471–474. Statius, Thebaid, 6.340–345, 433–435, 466, 475–476. Apollodorus...
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the time of day that they manifest. Description of Tisiphone in Statius' Thebaid: So prayed he, and the cruel goddess turned her grim visage to hearken...
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Charles Stanley Ross (section The Thebaid: Seven against Thebes. By Publius Papinius Statius: A Translation)
Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, and a translation of Statius’ The Thebaid: Seven against Thebes. Ross is the editor of the Parlor Press Renaissance...
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264 Orphic Hymn 22 Aristophanes, Clouds 563 Homer, Iliad 20.4 Statius, Thebaid 9.385 Hesiod, Theogony 182–187 Hesiod, Theogony 240-262 Hesiod, Theogony...
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Acaste (mythological nurse) (section Thebaid)
the daughters of king Adrastus of Argos. From Statius's Latin poem the Thebaid: Then the aged king [Adrastus] bids Acaste be summoned – his daughters’...
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one of only two surviving Latin epics to do so (the other being Statius' Thebaid). The ending acts as a declaration that everything except his poetry—even...
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gift to Castalia from the river Cephisus. In his commentary on Statius's Thebaid, Latin poet Lactantius Placidus says that to escape Apollo's amorous advances...
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