Destruction of Thebes
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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.
And I know the reason, but because of the present misfortune of Thebes, I have no desire to speak it.
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.
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.