The Sophoclean title of new album Jenny From Thebes announces it as a continuation of the myth cycle. ... he is often at his most vivid when writing in the second person.

I am relieved to discover that King Tut’s tomb is smaller than my apartment back home. Now, when I return from this transcendent circumnavigation, I am less likely to suffer from any serious ...

Get facts, photos, and travel tips for Ancient Thebes with its necropolis, a World Heritage site in Egypt, from National Geographic.

Paul Cartledge, in “Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece,” puts the city back on the cultural map, and makes a case for the Theban general Epaminondas as the Nelson of his day.

The Guthrie's production of "The Burial at Thebes" leans on ceremony to illuminate ancient questions.