Thebaid
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noun
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Why have the works of Arctinus escaped the attraction which drew to the name of Homer such epics as the Cypria, the Little Iliad, the Thebaid, the Epigoni, the Taking of Oechalia and the Phocais.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
After a vividly drawn sketch of the hermitage in the Thebaid, the drama starts with the more vulgar and direct incitements to the coarser Deadly Sins and others—Gluttony, Avarice, Ambition, Luxury.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
That at Alnwick Castle was found in the Thebaid, and presented to Lord Prudhoe by the Pacha in 1838, and got to England by Bonomi.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
The Thebaid, however, continued in a state of revolt against the Assyrian authority.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
It may have suited the Thebaid still better, but there is no need to understand it only of that poem, as Grote does.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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