Thebes

Certain · Boeotia

Founded on the sown men of the dragon’s teeth, birthplace of Dionysus and Heracles, seat of the Labdacid curse: on the tragic stage Thebes is the city where everything Athens fears about itself is played out at a safe distance. Historical Thebes medized in the Persian wars, destroyed Athens’ power’s ally Plataea, and was itself razed by Alexander — the poets’ house of Pindar alone, tradition says, left standing.