From the moment of her arrival in Thebes, Nefertiti is beloved by the people. From Wordnik.com. [Nefertiti: Summary and book reviews of Nefertiti by Michelle Moran.] Reference
Amun and other gods in Thebes and left the capital, aiming to build a new one in the place now known as Tell El-Amarna. From Wordnik.com. [Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations] Reference
The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to Delphi who are trapped in Thebes by the war. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Geog.” s.v. The name Thebes pedion preserves the site. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
Since first the aspiring architect spanned the arch at Thebes, which is. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
Egypt, namely Thebes, above the capitals of Lower Egypt in regard to philosophical distinction. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
But for ancient peoples, the city was called Thebes, the great metropolis capital of the Egyptian Empire. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Egypt was nothing more than what is called Thebes, as Homer, too, shows, modern though he is in relation to such changes. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
Heliopolis, which the Greeks called Thebes, arose, with its hundred gates, and stately public buildings, and magnificent temples. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Some of the other states, such as Thebes, which was jealous of Athens, and. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Thebes is vastly older. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy in the Field] Reference
Thro 'Thebes' wide streets Tiresia's daughter came. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on various subjects, religious and moral] Reference
Greece, such as Thebes, within de la Roche's dominion, and Patræ and. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Oph (that is the name of the city which antiquity called Thebes of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
"Thebes," as the sitar is soon joined by piano, double-bass, and tabla. From Wordnik.com. [Brainwashed] Reference
Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
The dice discovered at Thebes and other places, may not be of a. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Such were they (who fought) for the dead of the Seven at Thebes. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Necropolis at Thebes, and believed to date from the sixteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
They were as famous as Memphis and Thebes on the Nile, as magnificent as. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
From ancient Thebes to 70s London, John Mullan goes in search of bad uncles. From Wordnik.com. [Ten of the best wicked uncles in literature] Reference
Performs in Welcome to Thebes at the National theatre, London, until 12 September. From Wordnik.com. [Portrait of the artist: David Harewood, actor] Reference
The countless tombs of Thebes are excavated in the rocky face of the Libyan hills. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
I think also that Cassander's punishment was deferred that Thebes might be repeopled. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Thebes and had been worsted in battle, the Thebans would not let them bury their dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Before he had arranged with him, fearing Aristodicus, he left here and went to Thebes. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
The praise of Epaminundas Duke of Thebes, wherein the grounde of nobilitée is placed. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
The pyramids, temples and palaces of Thebes are monuments of the ancient intellects of our race. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference
Jean was a female King of Thebes, relentless for the truth, even if it meant her own destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Moratorium] Reference
Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
Five ships started from Thebes, sailing down the river Nile and probably reaching the Red Sea by means of a canal. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
There was a law at Thebes that no one could have a share in the government till he had been ten years out of trade. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
The kyngdome of Thebes, was in miserable state, the twoo sonnes of Oedipus, Eteocles, and Polunices: striuing bothe. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
And I think you know if he were a Plataean, he would probably have taken refuge anywhere else sooner than in Thebes. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
And the ships voyaged safely back to Thebes with all their booty and with pleasant recollections of the people of Somaliland. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Still she flew on day after day, till early in January they reached the spot "where spreading Nile parts hundred-gated Thebes.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 10: 2 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
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