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But a British-Egyptian team located it in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis near the city of Luxor.

Then Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” a Penguin edition of Sophocles, “The Three Theban Plays,” and two books by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “The Phenomenon of Man” and “Writings Selected.”

Philip of Macedon was made captain of their army by the Thebans after the death of Epaminondas, and after the victory he took their liberty away from them.

And in his famed Theban plays, the social ramifications of this are devastating.

The story of the Theban family rivals that of the House of Atreus in fame and for the same reason.