It is such a simple, yet infinitely complex, proposition. These stray thoughts entered the mind in viewing "The Burial at Thebes," Seamus Heaney's adaptation of "Antigone" that opened this weekend ...

Ancient Thebes was home to some of the greatest monuments of the ancient world—built to honor the living, the dead, and the divine. The city, known as Waset to ancient Egyptians and as Luxor ...

In many ways, Athens and Sparta seem like opposite extremes. But what comes to mind at the mention of a third major Greek city, Thebes? In legend Thebes can seem like a dark place: polluted with ...

Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the ...

On a recent trip to Egypt, I found that the city of Luxor, once the ancient capital of Thebes and often called the world's "largest open-air museum," held far more fascinating ancient Egyptian ...

The Battle of Tegyra in 375 B.C. proved that the legendary Spartan army could be defeated. A thousand Spartan soldiers, trained for combat from the age of 7, were returning from an expedition when ...

54th St. New York City. Oedipus' two sons were supposed to rule Thebes in tandem. But Eteocles took complete control and forced his brother out of the city and is now sole king. Eteocles has been ...

His "Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes" ($55) will be published by John Hopkins University Press in December. Statius' epic strongly influenced European literature, Ross says. It also provides an apt ...