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Theatre | Macedonia, Macedones | Persian Wars | Education / Culture | Boeotia, Boeotians
(Θέσπεια/Théspeia, Hom. Il. 2,498, Hdt. 8,50,2; also Θεσπιαί/Thespiaí, Xen. Hell. 5,4,10, IG VII 1862; Lat. Thespiae). City in South Boeotia. South of present-day T. (formerly Erimocastrum) [1], remnants of the polyandreîon (mass grave) with those who fell in 424 BC at Delium [1] are extant [2]. The city area (survey: [3]) comprised Siphae and Creusis on the Gulf of Corinth, the plain of Leucta in the north, As…