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Thebe, Cilicia

Thebe, sacred city of Eetion.

Home city of Chrysis (captured combubine of Agamemnon) and Briseis (captured combubine of Achilleus).

Sacked by Achilles and the Achaians (who carried off the women mentioned above).

When Chrysis's father comes to Agamemnon to ransom back his daughter, the Iliad begins.

- sources

- Iliad - Homer - translation Richmond Lattimore - University of Chicago Press 1951 (Phoenix Books)