Destruction of Thebes
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Thebes had been destroyed · Thebes...swept from the midst of Hellas · misfortune of Thebes · the annihilation of Thebes
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Funeral Oration (Greek)
They saw that the city of Thebes had been tragically annihilated from the face of the earth, that its citadel was garrisoned by the Macedonians, and that the persons of its inhabitants were in slavery, while others parcelled out the land among themselves.
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Against Ctesiphon
Catastrophic fall of Thebes used as an example of divine and political reversal.
Thebes, our neighbor, has in one day been swept from the midst of Hellas—even though justly, for her main policy was wrong, yet possessed by an infatuate blindness and folly that were not of men, but a divine visitation.
And I know the reason, but because of the present misfortune of Thebes, I have no desire to speak it.
Funeral Oration
The destruction of Thebes by Macedonian power, cited as an example the fallen witnessed before their own battle in Boeotia.
They saw that the city of Thebes had been tragically annihilated from the face of the earth, that its citadel was garrisoned by the Macedonians, and that the persons of its inhabitants were in slavery, while others parcelled out the land among themselves.
Phocion
Alexander's razing of Thebes, which precipitated his demand for the surrender of Athenian political figures.
And when Thebes had been destroyed and Alexander was demanding the surrender of Demosthenes, Lycurgus, Hypereides, Charidemus, and others, and the assembly turned their eyes upon Phocion and called upon him many times by name, he rose up, and drawing to his side one of his friends, whom he always cherished, trusted, and loved most of all, he said: