Similar words: for the best, get the best of, hope for the best, make the best of, make the best of things, make the bed, on the beach, for the better. Meaning: 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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31. For example, there is a papyrus discovered at Thebes offering a reward for a run - away slave.
32. A prophet warned King Laius of Thebes that because he had married his cousin Jocasta, he would be killed by his son.
33. Yet the memory of Thebes did not save three other great cities from similar brain storms.
34. Their daughter Harmonia is the ancestress of the unquiet dynasty of Thebes.
35. One odd contrast between the life of old Thebes or Babylon and modem life was the absence of coined money.
36. As Alcmene , Princess of Thebes, awaits the return of her husband Amphitryon from war, the virtuous bride falls victim to the licentious Zeus and finds herself carrying the great god's child.
37. Most people think of Cairo and the Great Pyramids when they think of ancient Egypt, but the heartbeat of the magical pharaonic dynasties actually beat much further up the Nile at Thebes.
38. The KV55 tomb contained a cache of material thought to have been brought by Tutankhamun to Thebes from Amarna, where Akhenaten (and perhaps Smenkhkare) had been buried.Sentence dictionary
39. Just outside Thebes, the sun is rising on a small house near the Nile.
40. He lived in Paris more lonely than an anchorite in the deserts of Thebes.
41. Aphrodite was also honored as a goddess of war, especially in Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus and some other places.
42. She and Apollo killed the children of Niobe, queen of Thebes, after Niobe boasted that she had more children than Leto .
43. After his death, his son-in-law (and perhaps son) Tutankhamen moved the political and religious capitals back to Memphis and Thebes respectively and reinstated the old gods.
44. Niobe, the queen of Thebes, had indeed good reason to be proud of her herself .
45. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was ones singer in the Temple of Thebes.
46. Creon is king of Thebes,(sentencedict.com) bound to the duties of rule.
47. An ancient city of southern Greece in the eastern Peloponnesus. Thebes defeated Sparta here in 362 bc.
48. Every building in Thebes was razed except the temples and the house in which the poet Pindar had lived a century before: Alexander loved Pindar's odes.
49. A son of Oedipus and Jocasta who agreed to reign in Thebes in alternating years with his brother, Polynices, but refused to resign after the first year.
50. I will lay waste Upper Egypt , set fire to Zoan and inflict punishment on Thebes.
51. BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
52. Who built the seven towers of Thebes The book are filled with the names of kings.
53. At that time, his son heir to the boat ride at tower confit to lead a massive imperial fleet remains of the Nile will father sent to Thebes.
54. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once singer in the Temple of Thebes.
55. Alcmene, fearing Hera's jealousy , exposed her newly - born child in a field outside the walls of Thebes.
56. Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC; the battle ended Sparta's military supremacy in Greece.
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