Thespiae
Sign in to saveThespiae ( ; ) was an ancient Greek city (polis) in Boeotia. It sits at the foot of Mount Helicon and near right bank of the Thespius River (modern name Kanavari River).
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Thespiae
- Ancient site.native_name
- Θεσπιαί
- Ancient site.native_name_lang
- grc
- Ancient site.type
- Ancient city
- Ancient site.image
- Thespiae 431-424 BC.jpg
- Ancient site.alt
- Photograph of an ancient Greek silver coin, showing a shield on one side.
- Ancient site.caption
- Silver Obol from Thespiae, 431-424 BCE. Obverse: Boeotian shield. Reverse: crescent, ΘΕΣ[ΠΙΕΩΝ] (of the Thespians).
- Ancient site.map_type
- Greece
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Location of Thespiae in Boeotia, Greece
- Ancient site.built
- Before
- Ancient site.epochs
- Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman
- Ancient site.cultures
- Ancient Greek
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1882
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Panagiotis Stamatakis
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Topography
- Archeology
- History
- Archaic period
- Persian, Peloponnesian, and Corinthian wars
- Hellenistic period
- Notable Thespians
- Mythology
- Ancient religion
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Thespiae ( ; ) was an ancient Greek city (polis) in Boeotia. It sits at the foot of Mount Helicon and near right bank of the Thespius River (modern name Kanavari River).
Thespiae was a Boeotian state sporadically involved in the military federal league known as the Boeotian League. The Boeotian League began in 520 BCE under the leadership of Thebes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thespiae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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