Thebes was one of the few city-states to embrace ... Alexander’s father, King Philip II, had transformed Macedonia from an insignificant kingdom on the edge of the Greek world into a burgeoning ...

It is such a simple, yet infinitely complex, proposition. These stray thoughts entered the mind in viewing "The Burial at Thebes," Seamus Heaney's adaptation of "Antigone" that opened this weekend ...

Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the ...