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Illustration of the woman of Thebez dropping the millstone on Abimelech, from Charles Foster, The Story of the Bible, 1884. The woman of Thebez is a character in the Hebrew Bible, appearing in the Book of Judges. She dropped a millstone from a wall in order to kill Abimelech. Abimlech had laid siege to Thebez and entered the city. The residents ...
1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani (adapting Merian's engraving); Timoclea pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well.. Timoclea or Timocleia of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλεία) is a woman whose story is told by Plutarch in his Life of Alexander, and at greater length in his Mulierum virtutes ("Virtues of Women").
Phoenissae (Phoenician women) is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca; with only c. 664 lines of verse it is his shortest play. It is an incomplete text in two parts. It is situated in Thebes in Boeotia, the city founded by Cadmus, who came from Sidon, in Phoenicia.
The Phoenician Women (Ancient Greek: Φοίνισσαι, Phoinissai) is a tragedy by Euripides, based on the same story as Aeschylus' play Seven Against Thebes. It was presented along with the tragedies Hypsipyle and Antiope. With this trilogy, Euripides won the second prize.
One rare version of the myth makes Thebe a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus [5] and/or Heracles. [6] Thebe, daughter of Asopus [2] and Metope, [7] who was said to have consorted with Zeus. [8] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes [9] after her because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus.
Detail of clay group with mythological scene from the Theban cycle, from the area of temple A at Pyrgi, mid-fifth century BC.. The Theban Cycle (Greek: Θηβαϊκὸς Κύκλος) is a collection of four lost epics of ancient Greek literature which tells the mythological history of the Boeotian city of Thebes. [1]
Dirce was devoted to the god Dionysus, who caused a spring to flow where she died, either at Mount Cithaeron or at Thebes, and it was a local tradition for the outgoing Theban hipparch to swear in his successor at her tomb. [5] In Statius's Thebaid, the spring is a symbol of Thebes, and its name is often used metonymically to refer to the city ...
Amphion and Zethus built fortifications of Thebes. [5] They built the walls around the Cadmea, the citadel of Thebes at the command of Apollo. [6] While Zethus struggled to carry his stones, Amphion played his lyre and his stones followed after him and gently glided into place. [7] Amphion married Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus, the Lydian king.