Xanthos (King of Thebes)
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Xanthus was a king of Thebes
, that is the 16th
and final monarch that ruled the city.
Was possibly a king only temporarily,being shown sometimes as the king of the Boetians sometimes of the Thebians, slain by Melanthus of Attic.
Ancient Thebes (Boeotia)
See Thebes, Greece for the modern city built on the ancient ruins.Ancient Thebes was a Boeotian city-state , situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain...
, that is the 16th
and final monarch that ruled the city.
Was possibly a king only temporarily,being shown sometimes as the king of the Boetians sometimes of the Thebians, slain by Melanthus of Attic.