Thebaid (poems)

Thebaid (poems)

"Thebaid" is used in English as the name of two epic poems, one in Greek, one in Latin.

*For the early, lost Greek epic "Thebais", occasionally attributed to Homer, see Thebaid (Greek poem)
*For the Latin literary epic "Thebais" by Statius, see Thebaid (Latin poem)

ee also

* La Thébaïde, a tragedy by French writer Jean Racine,


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