Men drawn to his hermitage in the Thebaid (Egypt) by the fame of his holiness, and forming the first monastic communities.
Pachomius was called in to help organize others, and by one count by the time he died in 346 there were thought to be 3,000 such communities dotting Egypt, especially the Thebaid.
Lactantius Placidus (350–400 AD) was the presumed author of a commentary on Statius's poem Thebaid.
The Epigoni, attributed in antiquity to either Antimachus of Teos or Homer: a continuation of the Thebaid, which told the story of the next generation of heroes who attacked Thebes, this time successfully.