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    The Thebaid or Thebais (‹See Tfd›Greek: Θηβαΐς, Thēbaïs) was a region in ancient Egypt, comprising the 13 southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    The Thebaid or Thebais (‹See Tfd›Greek: Θηβαΐς, Thēbais), also called the Cyclic Thebaid, is an Ancient Greek epic poem of uncertain authorship (see Cyclic...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Apollodorus, 3.12.3; Dictys Cretensis, 4.22 Homer, Iliad 15.525 Statius, Thebaid 7.759 Hyginus, Fabulae 181 Homer, Iliad 23.246; Tzetzes, 138; ad Lycophron...
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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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    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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  • "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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Idmon, herald of Turnus. Idmon, a figure briefly mentioned in Statius' Thebaid. He came from Epidaurus and was portrayed in the poem cleansing Tydeus'...
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  • 1.9.17 Euripides, Hypsipyle (fragments) Hyginus, Fabulae 15 Statius, Thebaid 6.464 ff. Hyginus, Fabulae 273 Homer, Iliad 7.465 ff Homer, Iliad 23.747...
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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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    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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  • missing publisher (link) Hyginus, Fabulae 135 Virgil, Aeneid 11.30 Statius, Thebaid 8.428 ff. Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated...
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  • Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224 Apollodorus, 2.4.9–10 Apollodorus, 2.7.6 Statius, Thebaid 7.755 Homer, Iliad 2.172-176 Robert Fagles Translation; Apollodorus, E...
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    December 2019. Apollodorus, 2.5.11 Hyginus, Fabulae 31 & 157 Statius, Thebaid 6.893 ff. Lucan, Pharsalia 4.588-655 Ahmed Toufiq (2019). في تاريخ المغرب...
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  • 9.29.6; Hyginus, Fabulae 161 Pausanias, 1.43.7; Statius, Thebaid 570 ff. Statius, Thebaid 9.254 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation...
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