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After reading an article over the history of Greece, I was wondering the importance of the thebe?
After reading an article over the history of Greece, I was wondering the importance of the thebe?
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20 marca 2009 o 1:04
thebes i believe was where peloponesia thrived. they had the best army in ancient greece
22 marca 2009 o 20:15
Thebes, which is north of Athens and Corinth, is significant in ancient Greece, for its even then ancient tradition of myth hero’s and legend.
It is the farthest north of the major city-states that made up Greece in what we call the Golden Age. The period from the Persian Wars to the rise of Macedonia.
It seems that Thebes is involved in all the great legends in some way Oedipus was King of Thebes, Jason, Hercules, all have some role with the city and its land. It was like we use to say “Once out west….” they would say “Once in Thebes…”
I can not remember for sure, but I believe that Thebes may have sided with the Persians because of their northern location, and that they may have been neutral in the Peloponnesian War. But I do know that after Sparta won that war and started to exert their power over the other City-States of Greece it was Thebes and their Sacred Band of warriors who defeated them. Of course, as is the history of Greece, while defeating the enemy they destroyed themselves.
The fall of Thebes after the destruction of Sparta left no one to challenge Phillip the Great of Macedonia when he came with his army.