{"id":1424,"date":"2020-11-12T11:56:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T10:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:14:25","slug":"paul-cartledge-thinking-like-a-theban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/2020\/11\/12\/paul-cartledge-thinking-like-a-theban\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Cartledge: Thinking like a Theban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.acast.com\/5e957b9f339fe2a164bb4536\/episodes\/paul-cartledge-thinking-like-a-theban?theme=white&amp;cover=1&amp;latest=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"100%\" height=\"110px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Sometimes \u2013 and it\u2019s the case with the subject of this programme \u2013 a book is published and you think, &#8220;I am as close to dead centre in the target readership for that book as it\u2019s possible to be.&#8221; Let me explain\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rough-guide-greece.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1438\" width=\"177\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rough-guide-greece.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rough-guide-greece-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><figcaption>First edition of the first Rough Guide to anywhere. Alas, I no longer have my copy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Just after I graduated, I went to Greece to teach English for a year. Not to some whitewashed Cycladic island or to Athens, but to a much smaller city 90 km by road north-west of the capital in a fertile plain: Thebes. The very first <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughguides.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rough Guide<\/a><\/em>, which was to Greece, had recently been published. If I remember correctly, it called Thebes a &#8220;dusty provincial town&#8221;. But to me, its name stood out from those of other dusty provincial towns. How could it not? Seven-gated Thebes whose patron god was Dionysus, birthplace of Herakles, the city of Oedipus and Antigone. A few years before going to Greece, I\u2019d been captivated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/9780571092239-senecas-oedipus.html\">Ted Hughes\u2019 version of the Oedipus legend<\/a> on the radio, adapted from the Roman dramatist Seneca. Plague-stricken, accurs\u00e8d, blood-soaked Thebes \u2013 it was bound to make an impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reality, perhaps inevitably, was more <em>Rough Guide<\/em> than Seneca\/Hughes, but Thebes\u2019 history is as long and rich as its legends. Every day on the way to school, I\u2019d pass the remains of a Mycenaean palace. There were no monuments to rival Athens (and trying to rival Athens is a big part of Thebes\u2019 story), but it was hard not to be impressed when someone told you, &#8220;This was the crossroads where Oedipus killed his father, this was where the sphinx posed her riddle.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/paul-cartledge\/thebes\/9781509873173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thebes-HB-674x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thebes-HB-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thebes-HB-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thebes-HB-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thebes-HB.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But for all its importance to Greek history and myth, Thebes tends to get bit parts in the broader story of ancient Greece \u2013 until now. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classics.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/paul-cartledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Cartledge<\/a>, Emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, has devoted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/paul-cartledge\/thebes\/9781509873173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a whole book<\/a> to what he calls the &#8220;forgotten city&#8221; of ancient Greece. And even if you didn\u2019t spend a year teaching in Thebes in the late 1980s, I think you\u2019re likely to find it fascinating for the fresh insights that a shift in perspective can bring, seeing the world not from &#8220;violet-crowned&#8221; Athens \u2013 as Theban poet Pindar put it, a reference to the city&#8217;s atmospheric purple haze \u2013 but from &#8220;the dancing floor of Ares&#8221;, as Theban general Epaminondas called Boeotia, the province where Thebes is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cartledge-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cartledge-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cartledge-2-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cartledge-2-768x933.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Professor Paul Cartledge at the LSA CA March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A flavour of Ted Hughes&#8217; Thebes that captured my teenage imagination:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-12-at-09.49.03-1010x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-12-at-09.49.03-1010x1024.png 1010w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-12-at-09.49.03-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-12-at-09.49.03-768x778.png 768w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-12-at-09.49.03-1000x1013.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-12-at-09.49.03.png 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes \u2013 and it\u2019s the case with the subject of this programme \u2013 a book is published and you think, &#8220;I am as close to dead centre in the target&hellip; <a class=\"excerpt-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/2020\/11\/12\/paul-cartledge-thinking-like-a-theban\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,2,4,3],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-history","category-history","category-literature","category-podcast","tag-podcast"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paul Cartledge: Thinking like a Theban - The Hedgehog and the Fox<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thebes has a rich history and even richer myth horde. 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