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Often appears with: the city and urban life · myth and the gods of the nations · festivals, games, and spectacle · fate, destiny, and necessity · empire and the rule of provinces · conquest, plunder, and captives · civil war and rebellion · trade, markets, and merchants · tiryns · strategy and the aims of war · sicily patronage · semelê’s tomb
Usually: detachment (4) · narrative (3) · sudden reversal of fortune (3) · the fall of the great (2) · curiosity (2) · indignation (2) · commentary or gloss (1) · dialogue (1) · reflection (1) · speech or oration (1)
“Thus must they vaunt; and therefore hath my rod / On them first fallen, and stung them forth wild-eyed / From empty chambers; the bare mountain side / Is made their home” Euripides, Hippolytus; The Bacchae · observation
After Thebes and other towns shift toward Rome, commissioners order each Boeotian city to submit individually to Roman protection, dissolving the league; key Macedonian-aligned leaders are imprisoned and killed.
[Sidenote: Dissolution of the Boeotian league, B.C. 171.] When the Theban envoys arrived, bringing with them to the commissioners the decrees and honours I have mentioned, a rapid change passed over the face of things in each of the towns, for they were separated by a very narrow interval from each other. The commissioners with Marcius received the Theban envoys, complimented their town and counselled them to restor…
Abimelech attacks Thebes and is killed when a woman drops a millstone on his head; soon after, Jair rules Gilead, and renewed disorder invites Ammonite and Philistine pressure.
Brought Upon The Philistines. 1. After Abdon was dead, the Philistines overcame the Israelites, and received tribute of them for forty years; from which distress they were delivered after this manner:— 2. There was one Manoah, a person of such great virtue, that he had few men his equals, and without dispute the principal person of his country. He had a wife celebrated for her beauty, and excelling her contemporari…
Myers sketches Pindar’s life—born near Thebes around 522 BCE, traveling for praise, fined for praising Athens, writing for Sicilian princes, living independently, and dying around 443 BCE—then recounts legends about his honeyed speech.
high place among poets, and will pass on to suggest briefly his claims to interest us by reason of his place in the history of human action and human thought. We know very little of Pindar's life. He was born in or about the year B.C. 522, at the village of Kynoskephalai near Thebes. He was thus a citizen of Thebes and seems to have always had his home there. But he travelled among other states, many of which have b…
The text situates Pindar within Greek history, emphasizing his Boeotian background, the role of Thebes in the Persian War, and the broader Panhellenic unity and later renewed conflict that shaped the “happy interval.”
good her claim to be called the saving arm, but there were other members not to be forgotten if we would picture to ourselves the national body in its completeness. Pindar was a Boeotian, of a country not rich in literary or indeed any kind of intellectual eminence, yet by no means to be ignored in an estimate of the Hellenic race. Politically indeed it only rises into pre-eminence under Epameinondas; before and aft…
Pindar’s ode for Melissos of Thebes celebrates his pankration wins at the Isthmus and chariot victory at Nemea, contrasts Zeus-given excellence with the instability of fortune, and compares Melissos’s fighting tactics to lions and the fox.
fierce famine from their bellies; but whoso in the games or in war hath won delightful fame, receiveth the highest of rewards in fair words of citizens and of strangers. Us it beseemeth to requite the earth-shaking son of Kronos, who is also neighbour unto us, and to sound his praise as our well-doer, who hath given speed to the horses of our car, and to call upon thy sons[6], Amphitryon, and the inland dwelling[7] …
Dionysus appears at the tomb/sanctuary of Semelê in Thebes, recounts his godhood, blames Semelê’s sanctuary-keepers and Pentheus for denying him, and announces punishment and his return in human disguise.
little enclosure overgrown with wild vines, with a cleft in the rocky floor of it from which there issues at times steam or smoke. The God* DIONYSUS *is discovered alone._ DIONYSUS Behold, God's Son is come unto this land Of heaven's hot splendour lit to life, when she Of Thebes, even I, Dionysus, whom the brand Who bore me, Cadmus' daughter Semelê, Died here. So, changed in shape from God to man, …
Idyl IV presents a dialogue where Megara mourns the madness-driven killing of her children by Heracles, recounting her grief in Thebes and Tiryns, and speaking of ominous dreams.
* * * * * MY mother, wherefore art thou thus smitten in thy soul with exceeding sorrow, and the rose is no longer firm in thy cheeks as of yore? why, tell me, art thou thus disquieted? Is it because thy glorious son is suffering pains unnumbered in bondage to a man of naught, as it were a lion in bondage to a fawn? Woe is me, why, ah why have the immortal gods thus brought on me so great dishonour, and wherefore d…