If Oedipus had laughed off the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, instead of completely freaking out about it, he would have never left for Thebes and made the prophecy come true.

当年面对那个“弑父娶母”预言，如果俄狄浦斯能付之一笑，而不是陷入极度恐慌，他也许根本就不会动身前往底比斯，预言也就不会成真了。

Together, they built the magnificent city of Thebes.

他们一起建造了宏伟底比斯城。

He lived in Paris more lonely than an anchorite in the deserts of Thebes.

他住在巴黎，比住在底比斯沙漠里隐士生活还要孤独。

Akhenaten was a controversial pharaoh—he made many changes to the religion of ancient Egypt, including switching from worshiping many gods to worshiping only Aten, the sun, and moving the capital city from Thebes to a new city, Amarna, which he built.

阿肯那顿是一位颇受争议法老，他古埃及宗教产生了许多改变，包们从崇拜众神转而崇拜太阳神，阿拖恩，并把首都从底比斯移到了他所建阿玛那。

The Old Kingdom fell as the central government declined, and from the ruins, two regional powers emerged, one in Heracleopolis in Lower Egypt, the other at Thebes in Upper Egypt.

古王国随着中政府衰落而衰落，从废墟中出现了两个地区性强国，一个在下埃及赫拉克利奥波利斯，另一个在下埃及底比斯。

At the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BCE against Thebes, the Thebans capitalised on these Spartan weaknesses, costing Sparta dearly.

在公元前 371 年对底比斯留克特拉战役中，底比斯利用了斯巴达这些弱点，斯巴达付出了沉重代价。

Who built the seven gates of Thebes?

底比斯七门何建起？

The power of the priests of Amun had continued to grow, and the New Kingdom ended when they asserted their power at Thebes and divided the country again, resulting in the 3rd intermediate period.

阿蒙祭司权力持续增长，当他们在底比斯确立权力并再次分裂国家时，新王国时期结束了，导致了第三个中间时期。

The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes.

这是曾在底比斯神殿里当过歌手赛潘姆特木乃伊。

Years earlier, he'd visited Thebes, the homeland of his mother, the princess Semele.

多年前，他曾造访忒拜，那里是他母亲、公主塞墨勒故乡。

Jack Storme was the local barrel maker and blacksmith of Thebes, Illinois.

杰克·斯托姆 (Jack Storme) 是伊利诺斯州底比斯当地木桶制造商和铁匠。

And Thebes and Athens are kind of brought to submit to Macedonian overlordship.

而底比斯和雅典也被迫屈服于马其顿统治。

They're not, as it were, the lackeys of Corinth and Thebes.

他们并非科林斯和底比斯走狗。

So he has to conquer the town of Thebes.

因此，他不得不征服底比斯城。

It was one of a pair brought several years previously by Captain Arthur Sabratash, a cousin of Pononar's, from a tomb near Alephius in the Libyan mountains, a considerable distance above Thebes on the Nile.

这是几年前由阿瑟·萨布拉塔什上尉带来一对木乃伊之一，他是波诺纳表亲， 从利比亚山脉中靠近阿勒菲乌斯一座墓穴中发掘，位于尼罗河上底比斯相当远上游。 虽然此处洞穴不如底比斯墓葬那般宏伟， 但由于提供了更多关于古埃及私生活例证， 因此具有更高研究价值。

I mean, if you want to use a modern term for what Thebes is in terms of how important a Greek city state it is, it is a city state too big to fail.

我意思是， 如果你想用一个现代术语来形容底比斯在希腊城邦中重要性，它就是一个大到不能倒城邦。

By the time Pharaoh Ramesses XI came to the  throne, his power and influence were so weak that Egypt was de-facto ruled by the high  priests of the Temple of Amun at Thebes.

到法老拉美西斯十一世登基时， 他权力和影响力如此微弱，以至于埃及实际上由底比斯阿蒙神庙大祭司统治。

Any man who hoped to marry Jocasta and become the new King of Thebes had to solve a riddle posed by the human-headed, lion-bodied and bird-winged creature known as the Sphinx.

任何希望娶伊俄卡斯忒为妻并成为忒拜新国王， 都必须解答由斯芬克斯提出谜题。斯芬克斯是一种头、狮身、鸟翼生物。

It's named the Oedipus Complex because of the tragedy by the famous Greek playwright Sophocles in which Oedipus, the king of Thebes, inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother.

这一现象被称为俄狄浦斯情结， 源于古希腊著名剧作家索福克勒斯悲剧作品。剧中， 底比斯国王俄狄浦斯无意间弑父并娶母为妻。

In November 2025, I am partnering with Ancient World Tours to bring you the glories of Thebes, that is, the monuments and treasures of ancient Waset, modern Luxor.

2025年11月，我将与远古世界旅行社携手，带您领略底比斯（即古时瓦塞特，今之卢克索）辉煌——探访那里古迹与珍宝。