Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis' has mentioned 'Homer' in the following places:
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However, since Homer refers to the metropolis by this name, and since Demotic script did not appear until a later date, the etymology is doubtful. | WIKI |
As early as Homer's Iliad,[8] the Greeks distinguished the Egyptian Thebes as "Thebes of the Hundred Gates" (xcex98xe1xbfx86xcexb2xcexb1xcexb9 xe1xbcx91xcexbaxcexb1xcfx84xcfx8cxcexbcxcfx80xcfx85xcexbbxcexbfxcexb9, Thxc4x93bai hekatxc3xb3mpyloi) or "Hundred-Gated Thebes", as opposed to the "Thebes of the Seven Gates" (xcex98xe1xbfx86xcexb2xcexb1xcexb9 xe1xbcx91xcfx80xcfx84xcexacxcfx80xcfx85xcexbbxcexbfxcexb9, Thxc4x93bai heptxc3xa1pyloi) in Boeotia, Greece. | WIKI |
The Greek poet Homer extolled the wealth of Thebes in the Iliad, Book 9 (c. 8th Century BC): "... in Egyptian Thebes the heaps of precious ingots gleam, the hundred-gated Thebes. | WIKI |