Thebais

Choosing for the scene of the most exquisite cruelty the most remote and sequestered country of the Roman empire, he relates that in Thebais from ten to one hundred persons had frequently suffered martyrdom in the same day.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Thebais, which is almost destitute of water, Ptolemy ordered springs to be searched for, wells to be dug, and caravanseras to be erected.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson William Stevenson 1784

Ancient Egypt may be divided into three principal parts: Upper Egypt, otherwise called Thebais, which was the most southern part; Middle Egypt, or Heptanomis, so called from the seven Nomi or districts it contained;

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701

The "Thebais" seems to have begun with the origin of the fatal quarrel between Eteocles and

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

But Homer, after losing the victory, went from place to place reciting his poems, and first of all the "Thebais" in seven thousand verses which begins: 'Goddess, sing of parched Argos whence kings ...', and then the "Epigoni" in seven thousand verses beginning:

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

The author of the "Thebais" says that when Olenus had been stormed, Oeneus received her as a prize.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

This Asphodicus killed Parthenopaeus the son of Talaus in the battle against the Argives, as the Thebans say; though that part of the "Thebais" which tells of the death of Parthenopaeus says that it was

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

As he read the classics he amused himself with translating them, and at fourteen made a version of the first book of the "Thebais," which, with some revision, he afterwards published.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

As he read the classics he amused himself with translating them, and at fourteen made a version of the first book of the "Thebais," which, with some revision, he afterwards published.

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson 1746

308: The authors of the "Thebais" say that Manto the daughter of Teiresias was sent to Delphi by the Epigoni as a first fruit of their spoil, and that in accordance with an oracle of Apollo she went out and met Rhacius, the son of Lebes, a Mycenaean by race.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod