Detail of clay group with mythological scene from the Theban cycle, from the area of temple A at Pyrgi, mid-fifth century BC.
The Theban Cycle (Greek: Θηβαϊκὸς Κύκλος) is a collection of four lost epics of ancient Greek literature which tells the mythological history of the Boeotian city of Thebes.[1] They were composed in dactylic hexameter verse and believed to be recorded between 750 and 500 BC. The epics took place before the Trojan War and centered around the Theban royal family.
The epics of the Theban Cycle were the Oedipodea, the Thebaid, the Epigoni, and the Alcmeonis.
The ThebanCycle (Greek: Θηβαϊκὸς Κύκλος) is a collection of four lost epics of ancient Greek literature which tells the mythological history of the Boeotian...
latter. The Epic Cycle was not "mentioned as a whole" (including the ThebanCycle) until the 2nd century CE, but knowledge of a "Trojan cycle" is apparent...
Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, though each was part of a different tetralogy (the other members...
are also ascribed three great events: the Argonautic expedition, the ThebanCycle, and the Trojan War.: 340 Some scholars believe: 10 that behind Heracles'...
the Thebaid and therefore was grouped by Alexandrian critics in the Thebancycle. Some counted it not as a separate poem but as the last part of the Thebaid...
Greece Dionysus and Semele Narcissus Heracles, who was born in Thebes The ThebanCycle, including the myths of Oedipus and the Sphinx, and the Seven against...
ouroboros is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth; the snake's skin-sloughing symbolises the transmigration...
chronicled in the Epic Cycle, of which much remains, and those about Thebes in the ThebanCycle, which have been lost. The ThebanCycle recounted the sequence...
Jonathan S. (2003). The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle. JHU Press. pp. 49–53. ISBN 978-0801874819. Powell, Barry B. (1996). Homer...
heavily in the Little Iliad and the Sack of Troy, both part of the Epic Cycle, but these have only survived in fragments and epitomes. As Odysseus was...
whose Iliad covers a mere 50 days of the war, they cover the complete war "cycle", thus the name. Most modern scholars place Homer in the 8th century BC...
rather than vengeance, and of the city. She persuades them to break the cycle of blood for blood (except in the case of war, which is fought for glory...
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surrounds the murder of the young king and indoctrination of all of the Theban women into Dionysus's cult, with the thyrsus serving as a badge of sorts...
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