Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Anthony Cartledge

Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

Paul Anthony Cartledge

448 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 te...

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