Thebes
The city of Cadmus and Oedipus, setting of more Greek tragedies than any other place.
The Story of Thebes
Thebes was mythology's cursed city. Founded by Cadmus who sowed dragon's teeth, it was ruled by Oedipus who killed his father and married his mother, then torn apart by the war of his sons Eteocles and Polynices. Antigone died defying Creon's law there. Dionysus returned there to punish his own family. The cycle of Theban myths provided material for more surviving Greek tragedies than any other setting.
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Thebes
🏛 placeCity of Cadmus and Oedipus
Thebes was the great city of Boeotia, founded by Cadmus who sowed dragon teeth, and the setting for the tragedies of Oedipus, Antigone, and the Seven Against Thebes.
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🏛 placeCity of Sisyphus and Medea
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Pherae
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Laodicea
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A Phrygian city named after a daughter of a Seleucid king but containing an older sacred tradition of Cybele.
Haliartus
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A Boeotian city on Lake Copais associated with the myth of Alcmena and a tradition of Heracles.
Methone
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A Macedonian coastal town where the archer Aster shot out the eye of Philip II — and mythologically associated with Ariadne.
Sestos
🏛 placeGeography
A city on the European shore of the Hellespont, home of Hero in the tale of Hero and Leander
Arges
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The Argolid plain dominated by the city of Argos, one of the oldest and most mythologically saturated regions of Greece.
Ilium
🏛 placeGeography
The citadel of Troy, site of the legendary ten-year siege by the Greek forces
Meroe
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A distant African kingdom mentioned in Greek mythology as the land at the source of the Nile, associated with the Ethiopians.
Lycia
🏛 placekingdom, Anatolia
A mountainous region in southwestern Anatolia whose warriors fought for Troy and whose hero Bellerophon slew the Chimera.
Hades
🏛 placeUnderworld geography
The vast underground kingdom of the dead ruled by the god Hades and his queen Persephone