Egyptian Thebes
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the Egyptian Thebes · the great city of the upper region · the hundred gates
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Orations
The Egyptian city of Thebes, referenced through a Homeric quotation about its hundred gates.
Nor Egyptian Thebes, "which is of the hundred gates, and through each two hundred men go forth with horses and chariots"—the life of grooms and gatekeepers.
Iliad
A city with a hundred gates, cited by Achilles as the richest city in the world.
he may promise me the wealth of Orkhomenos or of Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world, for it has a hundred gates through each of which two hundred men may drive at once with their chariots and horses;
Phaedrus
The great city of upper Egypt identified as the seat of the king-god Thamus (Ammon) in the myth of writing's invention.
Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon.