Kadmeia

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Overview plan of ancient Thebes

In ancient Greece, the Kadmeia was the flat hill named after Kadmos , the mythical founder of Thebes , on which the upper town ( acropolis ) of Thebes had been located at least since the Late Helladic . The hill was inhabited as early as the Early Helladic (3rd millennium BC).

The occupation of Kadmeia by Spartan troops under Phoibidas in 382 BC. BC triggered a series of wars between the two cities and their allies, which ended Sparta's hegemony over Greece and established Thebes' brief domination.

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• Xenophon : Hellenika . Esp. Book V, 2 and V, 4.

Remarks

1. ^ Louise Schofield : The Mycenaeans. The British Museum Press, London 2007, p. 94.

Coordinates: 38 ° 19 ′ 10 ″  N , 23 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E