c. 1400–1200 BC
Mycenaean Thebes and the Palace Archives
Mycenaean Thebes was one of the great palatial centres of Late Bronze Age Greece. Excavations within the modern city have uncovered buildings,…
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1205–1458
The Duchy of Athens
The Duchy of Athens was created after the Fourth Crusade. Its political centre often lay in Thebes, while the Acropolis served as…
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The Sacred Band of Thebes
The Sacred Band was an elite Theban infantry unit active in the fourth century BC. Ancient tradition describes it as composed of…
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