Thebaid

American  

[thee-bey-id, -bee-] / ˈθi beɪ ɪd, -bi- /

noun

1. the ancient region surrounding Thebes, in Egypt.

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Thebaid British  

/ ˈθiːbeɪɪd, -bɪ- /

noun

1. the territory around ancient Thebes in Egypt, or sometimes around Thebes in Greece

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Example Sentences

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

There is further at least one MS. containing a version of Statius’s Thebaid and of Heliodorus’s Aethiopica.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Statius, under the Flavian emperors, wrote several epic poems, of which the Thebaid survives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

Paula, where she received St Jerome upon his being called to Rome from the Thebaid by Pope Damasus in 392.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

That the Thebaid may be seen like the Delta.

From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Wilson, Epiphanius