Seizure of the Cadmea
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the seizure of the Cadmea at Thebes · they seized the Cadmea in Thebes
in the texts
Poliorcetica
The capture of the Theban citadel, cited as parallel to Astyanax's downfall through negligence about a warning.
For the same cause the Cadmea at Thebes too was seized, and at Mytilene in Lesbos things much like these were done.
Panegyricus
The Spartan seizure of the Theban citadel, treated as an act of aggression against a major Greek city.
they seized the Cadmea in Thebes;