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Theban /ˈθiːbən/adjective1Relating to or characteristic of the Greek city of Thebes or its inhabitants: the new Theban king...- Oedipus asked Creon to send him away from Theban territory.
- Born of a mortal woman and the god Zeus, the young god Dionysus is outraged at the Theban royal family's refusal to accept his heritage.
- But the Theban plays are hardly light-hearted entertainment.
2Relating to or characteristic of Thebes, the ancient capital of Upper Egypt: the hermit settlements of the Theban desert...- Karnak was the centre of the Theban Amun-Ra religion.
- The papyri were discovered on the Museum's Theban expedition of 1921-22 in the tomb of one Meseh.
- In Egypt, the twelfth-century BC pharaohs had to appoint a commission to inquire into the wholesale plundering of tombs in the Theban valley.
noun1A native or inhabitant of the Greek city of Thebes: the remains of poetry celebrating victories in games are dominated by a Theban...- He said that the man they are all looking for is in Thebes, "a resident stranger as it seems, but soon to be revealed as a native Theban."
- The Thebans were de facto political allies of the Spartan alliance, sharing enmity with Athens' empire.
- Thessaly in the 360s was marked by internal wrangling and outside intervention by the Thebans.
2A native or inhabitant of Thebes, the ancient capital of Upper Egypt: the tombs of the private Thebans...- Despite the fact that they controlled only a small area of southern Egypt, the Thebans clearly viewed themselves as monarchs.
- The Hyksos and the Nubians, who had formed an alliance, surrounded the Thebans for almost 100 years.
- The princess was the offspring of the marriage of King Pisebkhan with a Theban.
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