Thebe (Greek myth)

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Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη) is a feminine name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them:

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  1. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1; Pausanias, 2.5.2
  2. ^ Pausanias, 5.22.6
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 3.5.6
  4. ^ a b Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206
  5. ^ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 8.
  6. ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
  7. ^ Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688
  8. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Thēbē
  9. ^ a b Diodorus Siculus, 5.49.3
  10. ^ Apollodorus, 3.1.1 with Pherecydes as the authority
  11. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.60.3.
  12. ^ Nonnus, 4.304, 5.86 & 41.270
  13. ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 9.383
  14. ^ John Lydus, De mensibus 4.67
  15. ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.396

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