Thebes (Greece)

Thebes is a city-state in the Hellenistic World, bordered by Orchomenos to the northwest, Aulis to the southeast, Plataia and Eleusis to the south, and Leuctra to the southwest. It is the capital city and population center of Boeotia.
For centuries, Thebes was a center for many important events involving several famous heroes of Greece, such as Heracles, Cadmus, Dionysus and Oedipus.
==History==
===Founding by Cadmus===
Cadmus was one of many sons born to Agenor and his wife Telephassa, king and queen of the island-city of Tyre. When Europa mysteriously disappeared, having been unknowingly abducted by the god Zeus, King Agenor ordered him and his brothers to go out and search for her, telling them that none of them would be permitted to return home without her.
The sons set off, though none of them were successful in their quest; Kilix settled in southeastern Anatolia, wherein lies the region of Cilicia (Kilikia) and Phoinix settled somewhere in North Africa. Cadmus was accompanied in his search by his mother Telephassa and his brother Thasos, and the three scoured across the Aegean, eventually arriving on the shores of Thrace in northern Greece. There, Telephassa died and Thassos decided to give up on the search, ultimately settling on the island just off the shore.
Another detail to note was that Cadmus landed on the spot that would become Thebes by following a cow. Once the cow stopped moving, that was where him and a large group of people would settle.
===King Oedipus===
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===Heracles's Twelve Labors===
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