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Thebe

also: Θήβα, Θήβας, Cilician Thebe, Thebe under Plakos

Andromache's home city under Mount Plakos near Troy — 'holy Thebe' in fr. 44 — distinct from the Boeotian and Egyptian cities of the name. In the Iliad, Achilles sacks it and kills her father and brothers.

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