Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Constructing a city; Chapter1 Epic Thebes; Iliadic Troy; Seven-gated Troy: Homeric Thebes; The construction of epic topography; Chapter 2 Lyric Thebes; Archaic and early classical, non-Boeotian, lyric; Native verse: Pindar; Boeotian verse: Corinna; Thebes in lyric; Chapter 3 Thebes on stage; Gates and walls; Springs, rivers, and the natural landscape; City of heroes and heroines; City of gods; The Theban chora in tragedy: a city and its hinterland; Dramatic Thebes
Chapter 4 Thebes of the libraryThebes, Delphi, and Delos: the Homeric Hymn redux?; Thebes in an Alexandrian epic; Thebes in other Hellenistic poets; Alexandrian Thebes; Chapter 5 The creation of Theban topography; Thebes for the tourist; Natural and traditional topography; Constructed topography: fortifications; Places of heroes and gods; The reconstruction(s) of Thebes; Spaces, places, and perspectives; Appendix I The plain(s) of Thebes; Appendix II The walls and gates of Thebes; Forchhammer 1854 (Map 1); Fabricius 1890 (Map 2); Gomme 1910 (Map 3); Keramopoullos 1917 (Map 4)
Symeonoglou 1985 (Map 5)Mastronarde 1994 (Map 6); Appendix III Pindar's house; References; Index Locorum; General Index
