The book of the ancient Greeks / An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.

by Dorothy Mills

[[16]] Thucydides, VIII.

[[17]] Plutarch: Life of Alcibiades.

[[18]] Xenophon: Hellenica, II.

[[19]] Xenophon: Hellenica II.

[[20]] Ibid.

[[21]] Based on Xenophon: The Anabasis.

CHAPTER XVII
THE GREAT DAYS OF THEBES

I. LEGENDS AND EARLY HISTORY OF THEBES