Continuously inhabited for five millennia, and at one point the most powerful city in Ancient Greece, Thebes has been overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. According to myth, the city was founded when Kadmos sowed dragon's teeth into the ground and warriors sprang forth, ready not only to build the fledgling city but to defend it from all-comers. It was Hercules' birthplace and the home of the Sphinx, whose riddle Oedipus solved, winning the Theban crown and the king's widow in marriage, little knowing that the widow was his mother, Jocasta. The city's history is ev Thebes - Paul Cartledge od authora Paul Cartledge a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Paul Cartledge |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
448 |
| Rok vydání |
2021 |
| Nakladatelství |
Pan Macmillan |
