Thespiae

American  

[thes-pee-ee] / ˈθɛs piˌi /

noun

1. a city at the foot of Mount Helicon where, according to mythology, the Muses performed their games.

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Example Sentences

As a sequel, the hopes and spirits of the Thebans were again kindled into new life, and they made campaigns against Thespiae and the other provincial cities of Boeotia.

From Hellenica by Dakyns, Henry Graham

The two armies met on the memorable plain of Leuctra, near Thespiae.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir

The only people, north of the isthmus of Corinth, who remained faithful to the cause of Grecian liberty, were the Athenians and Phocians, and the inhabitants of the small Boeotian towns of Plataea and Thespiae.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir

My eyes bear witness that our hearts are in accord; you and we alike are pained at the effacement of Plataeae and Thespiae.

From Hellenica by Dakyns, Henry Graham

News of the disaster reached Pausanias as he was on the way from Plataea to Thespiae, and having set his army in order he came to Haliartus; Thrasybulus, also, came from Thebes, leading the Athenians.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh