Yet Thebes was one of Greece’s major cities, and for one brief moment—maybe even a shining one—the lead city in Greece. Paul Cartledge, in “Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece ...

With unearthed relics chosen for a permanent museum collection, the work of the first joint Greek-American archaeological dig in Thebes, Greece, continues Part lion and part human, the sphinx is a ...

For a generation after Leuctra, Thebes was the dominant military force in Greece — an era historian James Romm calls “the age of the Sacred Band.” In the end, it took none other than ...

The alabaster neo-classical monuments of Washington, DC were modeled after Rome, which was modeled after ancient Greece who colonized ... and here in Luxor (or Thebes, as the Greeks called it ...

The Sacred Band of Thebes was ancient Greece’s savage gift to anyone still facing opponents of gays in the military today. An elite military force, this platoon of egregiously out warriors ...

“The Burial at Thebes” is an adaptation of the original ... This came out in ancient Greece.” While Sutton expected casting to be difficult, she said the cast came together to create a ...