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Thebe

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Canonical name
Thebe
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Location
Scope
Individual
Parent location
None
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

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strong city of Eetion

Descriptive reference · Remembered

goodly city of the Cilicians

Descriptive reference · Remembered

Present entities

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AchillesCharacter2 observations
·Remembered

Achilles recalls that he went with the raiding party to Thebe and sacked it.

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We went to Thebe the strong city of Eetion, sacked it
·Remembered

Andromache recalls Achilles physically sacking Thebe and slaying Eetion there.

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Achilles slew my father when he sacked Thebe the goodly city of the Cilicians. He slew him
AndromacheCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

Andromache recalls being born at Eetion’s Thebe and raised there as a child.

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and I at Thebes under the wooded mountain of Placus in the house of Eetion who brought me up when I was a child

Claims

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·Remembered

Achilles remembers Thebe as Eetion’s strong city, sacked by his group and stripped of spoil.

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Thebe the strong city of Eetion, sacked it, and brought hither the spoil
·Remembered

Andromache remembers being born at Thebes beneath wooded Placus and raised in Eetion’s house.

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I at Thebes under the wooded mountain of Placus in the house of Eetion who brought me up when I was a child

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Remembered
Thebe the strong city of Eetion
·Remembered
Thebe
·Remembered
Thebe the goodly city of the Cilicians
·Remembered
the city of Eetion
·Remembered
I at Thebes under the wooded mountain of Placus in the house of Eetion

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 33

Achilles drew a deep sigh and said, ‘You know it; why tell you what you know well already? We went to Thebe the strong city of Eetion, sacked it, and brought hither the spoil. The sons of the Achaeans shared it duly among themselves, and chose lovely Chryseis as the meed of Agamemnon; but Chryses, priest of Apollo, came to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo, wreathed with a suppliant’s wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus who were their chiefs.