place
Thebes
also: Thebis
The Boeotian city; the home of the spiteful old woman who, by her will, had her grasping heir carry her oiled corpse on his bare shoulders.
Reading notes
- The Art of Poetry §99-118 Thebes
The great city of Boeotia; named with Argos to mark how a character's origin colors his manner.
- The Odes §1.7 Thebes famed for Bacchus
Boeotian Thebes, birthplace of Bacchus.
- The Odes §4.4 Echionian Thebes
Thebes of the Sown Men (Echion), another byword for monstrous foes.
- The Epistles §1.16 Thebes
The Boeotian city; the home of the spiteful old woman who, by her will, had her grasping heir carry her oiled corpse on his bare shoulders.
- The Satires §2.5 at Thebes
The Boeotian city; home of the spiteful old woman who, by her will, made her grasping heir lug her oiled corpse on his bare shoulders.