Thebes

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.12 Thebes

  The Boeotian city, with Troy and Caesar a fit subject for epic that the poet passed over for love.

• The Heroides §2 Thebes

  The Boeotian city; Theseus warred against it to recover the bodies of the fallen Argive Seven.

• Letters from the Black Sea §4.8 Thebes and the seven leaders

  Thebes and the Seven who marched against it; like the Trojan War, an event known to later ages only through song.

• Metamorphoses §3.43 Now Thebes stood

  Thebes, the great city of Boeotia founded by Cadmus, setting of the tragic house whose generations fill Books 3–4.

• Metamorphoses §3.64 the Ismenian women

  The women of Thebes, called Ismenian from the Theban river Ismenus, who take up the new Bacchic rites in fear.

• Metamorphoses §9.255 the Cadmean matrons

  The matrons of Thebes, the city founded by Cadmus, who attended Alcmena's labor.

• Metamorphoses §13.417 midst of Thebes

  Boeotian seven-gated Thebes, shown in mourning on the bowl.

• Metamorphoses §15.493 Oedipus' Thebes

  The Boeotian city of Oedipus, now scarcely a name.