How does Thebes connect to Ancient Greece? 10 points!!?

Question

How does Thebes connect to Ancient Greece?

Answer 1

Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

Answer 2

I give up you tell me

Answer 3

have you ever heard or read the story of oedipus the king?? your answer is in it i let you enjo the read or the play

Answer 4

Oedipus was born in Thebes . . . most people are familiar with that story from the play "Oedipus Rex."

But in "Oedipus at Colonus" (the 2nd installment of that triology) an oracle predicts that the land where Oedipus dies will become the most powerful nation in the world; so his former countrymen beg him to return to their city (even threatening to use force) . . . but instead he quietly died outside Athens in a grove sacred to the Furies, thus explaining why Athens became the cheif city so imporant to the Classical world.  

Yes, that play was propaganda -- writen by an Athenian, for an Athenian audience.  Those viewers would have remembered how the Theban army allied itself with Sparta during the Peloponnesian War.  Thus, it was a way for Sophocles to exert Athenian superiority in spite of their devestating defeat to Sparta, Thebes, & Corinth.  However, Thebes also helped Athens reinstate democracy (to counter Sparta's new domination of the Aegean region) after Sparta imposed the "thirty tyrants" to govern over Athens, a benevolent action which caused many Athenians to forgive Thebes for their alliance.

Thebes was also the birthplace of the important Greek god Dionysus.  Eurpides sets the city as his backdrop to the play "The Bacchae."

Thebes became prominent because of geopraphy.  It was situated North of both Athens & Sparta, and along a trade route between the Southern coast & interior moutainous mainland.  

Last, its famous soldiers, or "Sacred Band of Thebes" consisted of a fierce pairing of homosexual lovers [don't ask, don't tell!].  Many Greeks feared their prowess on the battlefield, but Phillip II (& his son, Alexander the Great) overpowered & annihilated them during his war to unite Greece under his kingdom.

Answer 5

Thebes is a city in Greece. It played an important role in the fabric of Greek myth, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus and others. The stories of Thebes are mainly tragic tales of death, confusion, war, murder, complete frenzy, and other tragic endings. The record of the earliest days of Thebes was preserved among the Greeks in an abundant mass of legends which rival the myths of Troy in their wide ramification and the influence which they exerted upon the literature of the classical age. Five main cycles of story may be distinguished:

1. The foundation of the citadel Cadmeia by Cadmus, and the growth of the Spartoi or "Sown Men".

2. The building of a "seven-gated" wall by Amphion, and the cognate stories of Zethus, Antiope and Dirce.

3. The tale of the Laius, whose misdeeds culminated in the tragedy of Oedipus and the wars of the "Seven Against Thebes," the Epigoni, and the downfall of his house; Laius' pederastic rape of Chrysippus was held by some ancients to have been the first instance of homosexuality among mortals, and may have provided an etiology for the practice of pedagogic pederasty for which Thebes was famous.

4. The advent of Dionysus

5. The exploits of Heracles.

Answer 6

He is the king