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Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 9, chapter 5
Lacedaemon (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 5
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Thebes (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 5
The first to occupy the land of Thebes are said to have been the Ectenes, whose king was Ogygus, an aboriginal. From his name is derived Ogygian, which is an epithet of Thebes used by most of the poets. The Ectenes perished, they say, by pestilence, and after them there settled in the land the Hyantes and the Aones, who I think wewards the city grew, and so the Cadmeia became the citadel of the lower city of Thebes. Cadmus made a brilliant marriage, if, as the Greek legend says, he indeed took the sons. He went to Argos and married a daughter of Adrastus, but returned to Thebes, being fetched by Eteocles after the death of Oedipus. On his return he quarrelp and held the kingship, the Argives led their army for the second time against Thebes. The Thebans encamped over against them at Glisas. When they joined in battle, ing to accompany him, withdrew when night came to Illyria.
The Argives captured Thebes and handed it over to Thersander, son of Polyneices. When the expedition under
Mysia (Turkey) (search for this): book 9, chapter 5
Plataeae (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 5
Constantinople (Turkey) (search for this): book 9, chapter 5
Sicyon (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 5
Argos (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 5
Illyria (search for this): book 9, chapter 5