Alexander wanted to be on good terms but they refused he sent troops to destroy it as a warning to other city-states what the consequences.
Thebes is the setting of Oedipus Rex because it is the place where the story begins.
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Thebes was the land that Oedipus ruled.
Polyneices and his brother Eteocles were both the kings of Thebes. Eteocles overthrows his brother and becomes the only king of Thebes. Polyneices in retaliation gathers an army from Argos and marches on Thebes.
He answered the riddle of the Sphinx, thus freeing Thebes from the rule of the Sphinx and allowing Thebes to once again prosper.
Alexander destroyed Thebes because he was using it as an example to other Greeks of what would happen if they turned against him.
Yes he was 20 when he attacked Thebes
City of Thebes
Thebes
Alexander the great destroyed Thebis after he conquered it as an example to others.
Alexander wanted to be on good terms but they refused he sent troops to destroy it as a warning to other city-states what the consequences.
how did destroying the city of thebes prove alexander to be more than a mere boy
Thebes, as a warning to other cities not to rebel.
Thebes.
Alexander had destroyed Thebes and sold its people into slavery as a warning to other cites.
i dont know but i think it is 337bc
Pindar's the poet