appassionato, 6 months ago to bookstodon

Thebes
The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

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.

It was destroyed on the orders of Alexander the Great.

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