place

Thebes

Places

A southern Egyptian sacred city of temples — and, separately, a Greek city of myth. Egyptian seat is primary here; Greek Thebes stays for meetings.

Egyptian religion

  • Thebes appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian logos names Thebes among the great Egyptian seats upriver. A named Egyptian Thebes in that traveler’s account, not Greek Thebes of the Seven and not Memphis.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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