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Similar words: for the bestget the best ofhope for the bestmake the best ofmake the best of thingsmake the bedon the beachfor the betterMeaning: n. 1. an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile River that flourished from the 22nd century BC to the 18th century BC; today the archeological remains include many splendid temples and tombs 2. an ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC. 
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1. Dionysus came to Thebes to establish his worship there.
2. Go back to Thebes and tell her we know how much better peace is for men than war.
3. Theseus led his army against Thebes, conquered her and forced her to allow them to be buried.
4. He told Creon that Thebes would be save only if Menoeceus was killed.
5. On his wanderings Oedipus came to Thebes, solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and thus delivered the city.
6. Thebes and Corinth wanted Athens to be utterly destroyed sooner than see her turned into a Spartan puppet.
7. The matter was not carefully investigated because Thebes was in sore straits at the time.
8. Thebes was Dionysus' own city, where he was born, the son of Zeus and the Theban princess Semele.
9. Oedipus came to Thebes and solved the riddle of the Sphinx.
10. King Laius of Thebes was the third in descent from Cadmus.
11. The king also gave him a tomb at Thebes,[sentencedict.com/thebes.html] which as not yet been found.
12. He was born in Thebes and for a long time was held to be the son of Amphitryon, a distinguished general.
13. Semele was the daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes.
14. The people of Thebes refused to surrender.
15. Thebes, to his credit, haunted him.
16. Tiresias was a blind, dark seeing prophet of Thebes.
17. This destruction of Thebes betrayed a streak of violence in the new master of human destinies.
18. Nevertheless, the vaunted Spartan army was defeated by Thebes in 371 BC at the Battle of Leuctra.
19. Similar stadi - ums were in Thebes, Epidaurus and Olympia.
20. Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms.
21. Amphion is said to have built thebes by the music of his lyre.
22. Later Boiotian tradition maintained that Damaratos did, through his acquaintance with the leading citizens, help to arrange that of Thebes.
23. Polyneices took refuge in Argos and did all he could to arouse enmity against Thebes.
24. Odysseus then must go down and find the spirit of the prophet Teiresias who had been the holy man of Thebes.
25. Eteocles succeeded although he was the younger, and he expelled his brother from Thebes.
26. But when their two sons had grown to manhood Thebes was visited by a terrible plague.
27. I will make Pathros desolate, Set a fire in Zoan And execute judgments on Thebes.
28. This temple was dedicated by Ramses II to the chief gods of Heliopolis , Memphis , and Thebes.
29. He initiated the meteoric ascent of the god Amon of Thebes ( Luxor ).
30. The Athenians, when they heard what had happened to Thebes, very quickly surrendered.
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