Thebai (the ancient spelling of Thebes) is not in Egypt but somewhere in the middle of mainland Greece, about 90 km NW of Athens by road. There was indeed a Thebes in Egypt, which was actually the capital of New Kingdom (late second millennium BCE) Egypt.
Nov 20, 2020
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Dec 28, 2014 · Boeotian Thebes is among the oldest cities in Greece--Homer seems to think of it as the oldest, since when he says that something is older than ...
Apr 2, 2016 · I think the Greeks presumed the Egyptian city to be the Thebes of myth, and hence the name stuck during the Hellenistic period. The Ancient ...
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Jun 20, 2002 · It's pronounced "Theebs" and I can tell you that the "original" Thebes is that in Greece. Of course the Egyptian one is older, but the city name ...
The term “Thebes” is definitely Hellenic, but there were two different major cities in antiquity that were called Thebes by the Ancient Greeks, ...