Thebaid

He resolved, therefore, to visit the district known as the Thebaid, where St. Pachomius, the father of monasticism in the East, had founded many monasteries and drawn up a rule for the monks.

Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy 1902

Fragment #1 -- Contest of Homer and Hesiod: Homer travelled about reciting his epics, first the "Thebaid", in seven thousand verses, which begins:

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

In this time S. Paul, tofore said, was young, about sixteen years of age, and dwelt in Thebaid which is a part of Egypt, with his sister Maurice.

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

Robert's, called 'Rete Mirabile.'] [Footnote 3: 'Statius:' author of 'Thebaid' and the 'Achilleid;' the latter translated by Sir Robert Howard.] [Footnote 4: 'With Monk you end,' &c.: alluding to a poem of this gentleman's on General Monk.] [Footnote 5: 'Rufus:' a Roman consul, banished to Smyrna through intrigues, but greatly respected.]

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665

The sons “should not divide their patrimony in friendship,” runs the Thebaid, an ancient Greek epic poem that exists only in fragments, “but the two of them should divide ever in battle and strife.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

The sons “should not divide their patrimony in friendship,” runs the Thebaid, an ancient Greek epic poem that exists only in fragments, “but the two of them should divide ever in battle and strife.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de

Les Miserables 2008

“Thebaid”, in seven thousand verses, which begins:

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

I exulted at the thought of living on bread and milk, like a hermit in the Thebaid, while I plunged into the world of books and ideas, and so reached a lofty sphere beyond the tumult of Paris, a sphere of silent labor where I would entomb myself like a chrysalis to await a brilliant and splendid new birth.

The Magic Skin 2007

Iamque domos patrias Scithice post aspera gentis prelia laurigero &c. Thebaid, xii, 519.

The Canterbury Tales 2006