Where Thebes was
The ancient city of Thebes in Boeotia (modern Greece). Athenaeum places it in the Central & northern Greece region. The source gives a located position.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Bronze Age
- Archaic Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Thebes.
- Thebai/Thebae
- Thebae
- Θήβα
- Thiva, Thíva
- Θῆβαι
- Thebai, Thēbai
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Thebes
Where does the information about Thebes come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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