me they ne'er shall win for an ally, Nor will this
Theban kingship bring them gain; That know I from this maiden's oracles, And those old prophecies concerning me, Which Phoebus now at length has brought to pass.
"When I had got the men together I said to them, 'You think you are about to start home again, but Circe has explained to me that instead of this, we have got to go to the house of Hades and Proserpine to consult the ghost of the
Theban prophet Teiresias.'
Having heard us to an end, the Count proceeded to relate a few anecdotes, which rendered it evident that prototypes of Gall and Spurzheim had flourished and faded in Egypt so long ago as to have been nearly forgotten, and that the manoeuvres of Mesmer were really very contemptible tricks when put in collation with the positive miracles of the
Theban savans, who created lice and a great many other similar things.
The suppliants plead with Theseus, king of Athens, to help them: the
Thebans are keeping their dead sons as spoils of war and will not allow them to be buried.
Yet, while he endeavors to fathom the motives and policies of Spartan leaders throughout the Greeks' conflict with the Persian Empire in the late sixth and early fifth centuries BCE, he is equally attentive to the strategic concerns, motives, and actions of the other players--Athenians, Corinthians,
Thebans, Ionian Greeks, and Persians.
A story in yesterday's edition wrongly stated that Caledonian
Thebans had won the Inclusive Rugby World Championships.
Clubs such as the newly formed Glasgow Alphas and the Edinburgh-based Caledonian
Thebans have been set up to encourage inclusion, allowing gay and bisexual men the confidence to take part.
Expecting the battle to develop in normal phalanx style, when both sides met in equal strength along the whole front of engagement, the Spartans failed to reinforce the threatened section in time and were broken, for considerable loss to themselves and almost none to the
Thebans. Despite this warning, they allowed themselves to be surprised in exactly the same fashion at Mantinea nine years later and were again defeated.
This spring, she sings Antigone in
Thebans, a new opera by composer Julian Anderson and librettist Frank McGuinness mounted as a co-production between English National Opera and Theater Bonn.
CARDIFF: Royal Welsh College Of Music And Drama (029 2039 1391),
Thebans: Richard Burton Company.
In the first part of the play, that is, up to Eteocles' resolution to fight against his brother, these names are actually expected to function as indicators of how the battle is going to develop--thus pointing to the future and the tangible results of the war--while simultaneously signifying and underlining the gulf that separates the
Thebans from Polynices and his army--and the great threat posed by those 'external' enemies.
She suggests that it was situated at Gebelein because it was an area that "had been hostile to the
Thebans," it was in an area that was a "recruitment basin" for his troops, and its location on top of the hill "in full view of travellers on the Nile" served to prominently proclaim the power of the king (pp.
The
Thebans were tired of being dominated by Sparta.
