Crossword-Solution: THEBAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Theban | a. | Of or pertaining to Thebes. |
| Theban | n. | A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| THEBAN | anagram | THENBA |
We have 18 clues for the answer “THEBAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dionysus, by birth | 1 answer |
| of or relating to the Greek city of Thebes or its people or culture | 1 answer |
| an Egyptian inhabitant of ancient Thebes | 1 answer |
| Tiresias, by birth | 1 answer |
| The general Pelopidas, for one | 1 answer |
| Resident of an old Egyptian capital | 1 answer |
| Native of one ancient Greek or Egyptian city | 1 answer |
| GREEK city/town, ancient (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| Egyptian of yore | 1 answer |
| Cadmus was one | 1 answer |
| Ancient Greek or Egyptian | 1 answer |
| Ancient Greek city-dweller | 1 answer |
| Ancient Egyptian perhaps | 1 answer |
| Oedipus, for one | 2 answers |
| Pindar was one | 2 answers |
| Spartan's foe | 2 answers |
| A GREEK INHABITANT OF ANCIENT THEBES | 11 answers |
| ANCIENT GREEK | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
IEVIDN
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with THEBAN (5)
What, born as mine were born? No, such a sight could never bring me joy; Nor this fair city with its battlements, Its temples and the statues of its gods, Sights from which I, now wretchedst of all, Once ranked the foremost Theban in all Thebes, By my own sentence am cut off, condemned By my own proclamation ’gainst the wretch, The miscreant by heaven itself declared Unclean—and of the race of Laius.
Shall I tell you whose I believe the saying to be? Whose? I believe that Periander or Perdiccas or Xerxes or Ismenias the Theban, or some other rich and mighty man, who had a great opinion of his own power, was the first to say that justice is 'doing good to your friends and harm to your enemies.' Most true, he said.
That bird Heracles, the valiant son of shapely-ankled Alcmene, slew; and delivered the son of Iapetus from the cruel plague, and released him from his affliction—not without the will of Olympian Zeus who reigns on high, that the glory of Heracles the Theban-born might be yet greater than it was before over the plenteous earth.
Thro' Thebes' wide streets Tiresia's daughter came, Divine Latona's mandate to proclaim: The Theban maids to hear the orders ran, When thus Maeonia's prophetess began: "Go, Thebans! great Latona's will obey, "And pious tribute at her altars pay: "With rights divine, the goddess be implor'd, "Nor be her sacred offspring unador'd." Thus Manto spoke.
For (not to derive the same from Hercules) noble descriptions there are hereof in the Grecian funerals of Homer, in the formal obsequies of Patroclus and Achilles; and somewhat elder in the Theban war, and solemn combustion of Meneceus, and Archemorus, contemporary unto Jair the eighth judge of Israel.
Quotes with THEBAN (2)
May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles
TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in threatening proclamationas murderer of Laius)- he is here. In name he is a stranger among citizensbut soon he will be shown to be a citizentrue native Theban, and he'll have no joyof the discovery: blindness for sightand beggary for riches his exchange, he shall go journeying to a foreign countrytapping his way before him with a stick. He shall be proved fat…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1984–2015).