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THEBES, by PINDAR Poet's Biography First Line: In whom, o thebes, of all the host Last Line: The sons of aegeus, sprung from thee? Subject(s): Thebes, Greece | ||||||||
IN whom, O Thebes, of all the host, In antique days renowned, That trod thy sacred ground, Hath thy blest spirit joyed the most? Whether when first thou gav'st to light Him, who his seat possesses Next timbreled Ceres in those regions bright, Bacchus of wide-clustering tresses? Or at the night's mid hour, When in a golden shower The mightiest of the gods receiving, Thou brought'st him to Amphitryon's bower, With that fair bride the Herculean germin leaving? Or in the ample mind Of thy Tiresias? or the might Of Iolaus, warrior knight? Or theirs, who from the furrows rose, Clashing their spears in hostile rows? Or when thou sentest from the stormy fight Adrastus home to Argian fields again, Leaving on the battle plain His myriad friends behind? Or when that Dorian colony Thou on their firm-fixed base Didst in Laconia place; And Pytho's oracle, In Amyclaean turrets, gave to dwell The sons of AEgeus, sprung from thee? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TWIN STATUES OF AMENOPHIS III AT THEBES by EDWARD CARPENTER TO THE DUCHESS OF ORMOND, WITH THE POEM 'PALAMON AND ARCITE' by JOHN DRYDEN THEBES by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA ISHTMIAN ODES: 5. THE SONS OF AEACUS by PINDAR ISTHMIAN ODES: 7. STREPSIADES OF THEBES by PINDAR |
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