Thespiae (/ˈθɛspi.iː/ THESP-ee-ee; Ancient Greek: Θεσπιαί, romanized: Thespiaí) was an ancient Greek city (polis) in Boeotia. It stood on level ground...

After the Battle of Thermopylae, the Persian army burned down the city of Thespiae. The citizens had fled to the Peloponnese. Later, the Thespians fought...

However, in late antiquity, Eros was worshiped by a fertility cult in Thespiae. In Athens, he shared a very popular cult with Aphrodite, and the fourth...

(/nɑːrˈsɪsəs/; Ancient Greek: Νάρκισσος, romanized: Nárkissos) was a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia (alternatively Mimas or modern day Karaburun, Izmir) who was...

371 BC – after 316 BC) was an ancient Greek hetaira (courtesan). From Thespiae in Boeotia, she was active in Athens, where she became one of the wealthiest...

dictionary. Thespian may refer to: A citizen of the Ancient Greek city of Thespiae An actor or actress Thespis, the first credited actor A member of the International...

place in the vicinity of Leuctra, a village in Boeotia in the territory of Thespiae. The Theban victory shattered Sparta's immense influence over the Greek...

legends related to Boeotia include: Eros, worshiped by a fertility cult in Thespiae The Muses of Mount Helicon Ogyges and the Ogygian deluge Cadmus, who was...

Cithaeron to hunt the cattle belonging to Amphitryon and to King Thespius of Thespiae. When Heracles was eighteen years old, Thespius asked him to kill the lion...

AD, Pliny had described two marble versions of a Cupid (Eros), one at Thespiae and a nude at Parium, where it was the stained object of erotic fascination...

Λιριόπη) or Leiriope (Ancient Greek: Λειριόπη) is a Boeotian naiad of Thespiae, who was probably the daughter of one of the Boeotian or Phocian river...

worked on commission. According to inscriptions at the ancient city of Thespiae near Mount Helicon in Greece, he was a winner in contests for composing...

region, who is named on an inscription from the Valley of the Muses at Thespiae. Curtis 2003, p. xvii. Hinz 2006. "statue; Vénus de Milo". Musée du Louvre...

ˈθɛstiəs/; Ancient Greek: Θέστιος) was a legendary founder and king of Thespiae, Boeotia. His life account is considered part of Greek mythology. Thespius...

was located upon Mount Helicon, less than seven and a half miles west of Thespiae. According to a lost poetic Atthis by one Hegesinous, a maiden by the name...

to withdraw his forces back to Thespiae. Shortly after the stand-off in Thebes, Agesilaus disbanded his army in Thespiae and returned to Peloponnesos through...

at Thespiae, continued raiding enemy territory, which prompted Gorgidas to bring his entire Theban force and plunder the surroundings of Thespiae in retaliation...

Belligerents Greek city-states:  • Athens   • Delian League  • Sparta  • Thespiae  • Thebes  • Ancient Cyprus Achaemenid Empire Greek Vassals:  • Halicarnassus...

affairs that stands out was his stay at the palace of Thespius, king of Thespiae, who wished him to kill the Lion of Cithaeron. As a reward, the king offered...

generative power with neither mother nor father. Eros was the patron deity of Thespiae, where he was embodied as an aniconic stone as late as the 2nd century...

cities of Thespiae and Orchomenus as well.  In the 370s, Athens and Thebes went to war against Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians used Thespiae and Plataea...

Demophilus (Ancient Greek: Δημόφιλος) may refer to: Demophilus of Thespiae led a contingent of about 700 Thespians at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)...

this alone does not explain the fact that they remained; the remainder of Thespiae was successfully evacuated before the Persians arrived there. It seems...

burn and sack the Boeotian cities that had not surrendered, Plataea and Thespiae, before marching on the now evacuated city of Athens. The Allies (mostly...

Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles, ordered by the courtesan Phryne. In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias mentioned the existence at Thespiae in Boeotia (central...

the Thespian son of Heracles and Chryseis, daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae. Onesippus and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who...

was a young man who fell in love with Narcissus, a handsome hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia, who had already spurned all his other suitors, according to...

much smaller force of 300 Spartans, 400 Thebans and 700 men from Boeotian Thespiae at the Battle of Thermopylae. The Persians left Greece in 479 BC after...

According to Eunapius, the last Hierophant was a usurper, "the man from Thespiae who held the rank of Father in the mysteries of Mithras". In 396, during...

killed by Phorbus. Thespian dragon, a dragon that terrorized the city of Thespiae in Boeotia. Trojan dragons, a pair of dragons or giant serpents from Tenedos...