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Thebes, Greece
Thebes
(; ,
Thebai
, ; ,
Thíva
) is a city in
Boeotia
,
central Greece
. It played an important role in
Greek myth
, as the site of the stories of
Cadmus
,
Oedipus
,
Dionysus
and others.
Archaeological
excavations in and around Thebes have revealed a
Mycenaean
settlement and
clay tablets
written in the
Linear B
script, indicating the importance of the site in the
Bronze Age
.
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