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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").
Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη) is a feminine name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them: Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt. [1] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Proteus, [2] or Libys, son of Epirus.
The women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, except for Thoas, who was saved by Hypsipyle. [11] Traces of the story can be found in the Iliad (c. 8th century), where Lemnos is referred to as the "city of godlike Thoas", [12] and Euneus, Jason's son by Hypsipyle, is mentioned. [13]
ɒ n / (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίων, romanized: Amphíōn)) and Zethus (/ ˈ z iː θ ə s /; Ζῆθος Zēthos) were, in ancient Greek mythology, the twin sons of Zeus (or Theobus) [2] by Antiope. They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, because they constructed the city's walls. Zethus or ...
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.
de Thèbes means "of Thebes" in French, which refers to the city of Thebes in ancient Egypt.The name was suggested by French writer and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils to Anne-Victorine Savigny with inspiration from his psychological drama La Route de Thèbes about a mysterious woman, which was his final work and was never finished.
Pentheus soon banned the worship of the god Dionysus, who was the son of his aunt Semele, and forbade the women of Cadmeia to partake in his rites. An angered Dionysus caused Pentheus' mother Agave and his aunts Ino and Autonoë, along with all the other women of Thebes, to rush to Mount Cithaeron in a Bacchic frenzy. Accordingly, Pentheus ...