Explore Thebes through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like city or metropolis. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Thebes meaning
- A city in central Greece, the capital city of Boeotia and an important political centre in antiquity.
- An ancient city and archaeological site in Upper Egypt, having functioned as capital city at times during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.
Synonyms of Thebes
Using Thebes
- The main meaning on this page is: A city in central Greece, the capital city of Boeotia and an important political centre in antiquity. | An ancient city and archaeological site in Upper Egypt, having functioned as capital city at times during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.
- Useful related words include: city, metropolis, urban center.
- In the example corpus, thebes often appears in combinations such as: of thebes, thebes and, at thebes.
Context around Thebes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thebes
- In this selection, "thebes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, price, recognised, suddenly, demanded, faced and accumulated stand out and add context to how "thebes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include city of thebes and corinth and thebes demanded that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thebes" sits close to words such as acrimony, aerosmith and albus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thebes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
From Antoninus Liberalis: "At Thebes Proitos had a daughter Galinthias. (10 words)
For instance, the god Monthu was the original patron of the city of Thebes. (14 words)
Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men! (15 words)
Once on Earth, Hercules is turned mortal but with godlike strength, after which he tries to be a hero to the people of Thebes and eventually has to decide whether being a god is more important to him than being loved by another human. (44 words)
For the Greeks, Tantalus was a primordial ruler of mythic Lydia, and Niobe his proud daughter; her husband Amphion associated Lydia with Thebes in Greece, and through Pelops the line of Tantalus was part of the founding myths of Mycenae 's second dynasty. (43 words)
In any case, the alliance came at a price: Thebes's control of Boeotia was recognised, Thebes was to command solely on land and jointly at sea, and Athens was to pay two thirds of the campaign's cost. (39 words)
Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men! (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
In any case, the alliance came at a price: Thebes's control of Boeotia was recognised, Thebes was to command solely on land and jointly at sea, and Athens was to pay two thirds of the campaign's cost.
Alexander the Great in 335 B.C. besieged and wiped out the 1,000-year-old iconic city of Thebes.
Suddenly, Thebes faced an immense army that was determined to make the city’s disobedience an example.
The Sacred Band of Thebes (an elite military unit) famously fell at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC against Philip II and Alexander the Great.
The Sacred Band of Thebes were a group of soldiers who were encouraged to take each other as gay lovers in the hope they would then fight more ferociously on the battlefield.
Frank was born August 26, 1931, in Thebes, IL, the son of Clyde and Mattie (Pettit) McBride.
Once on Earth, Hercules is turned mortal but with godlike strength, after which he tries to be a hero to the people of Thebes and eventually has to decide whether being a god is more important to him than being loved by another human.
After Chaeronea, Philip inflicted a harsh punishment upon Thebes, but made peace with Athens on very lenient terms.
After regaining their power, the high priests at the temple of Amun in Thebes accumulated vast tracts of land and wealth, and their expanded power splintered the country during the Third Intermediate Period.
As a result, his reports about Greek events are often coloured by Athenian bias against rival states – Thebes and Corinth in particular.
A temple to Menat (an early Hathor ) at Thebes was oriented with reference to Spica when it was built in 3200 BC, and, over time, precession slowly but noticeably changed Spica's location relative to the temple.
Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and all its citizens should be enslaved.
Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and all its citizens should be enslaved but Sparta refused.
Decline When war broke out afresh with Thebes, Agesilaus twice invaded Boeotia (in 378 BC and 377 BC), although he spent the next five years largely out of action due to an unspecified but apparently grave illness.
Even in the 1960s, Arvanitic village children could be figures of fun for their Greek peers in the schools of Thebes (One of the two regional towns) (K.
For instance, the god Monthu was the original patron of the city of Thebes.
For the Greeks, Tantalus was a primordial ruler of mythic Lydia, and Niobe his proud daughter; her husband Amphion associated Lydia with Thebes in Greece, and through Pelops the line of Tantalus was part of the founding myths of Mycenae 's second dynasty.
From Antoninus Liberalis: "At Thebes Proitos had a daughter Galinthias.
He characterises himself as a monk and tells a long story about the history of Thebes before the events of the Knight's Tale.
Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men!
Common combinations with thebes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of thebes 17×
- thebes and 5×
- at thebes 5×
- in thebes 4×
- thebes to 4×
- with thebes 3×
- and thebes 3×
- to thebes 3×
- thebes was 2×
- thebes which 2×