Thespiae

[ thes-pee-ee ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The earliest recorded images of Hera preceded the rise of Greek sculpture; a log at Thespiae, a plank at Samos, a pillar at Argos served to represent the goddess.

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He was treated with equal friendliness by Antigonus’s son Demetrius, who made him polemarch of Thespiae, and by Antigonus Gonatas, at whose court he died at the age of 104.

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The most celebrated statue of him was at Thespiae, the work of Praxiteles.

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So many came from the Peloponnesus; of the Bœotians there came seven hundred from Thespiae and four hundred from Thebes.

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Quare age huc aditum ferens Perge linquere Thespiae Rupis Aonios specus, Nympha quos super inrigat 30Frigerans Aganippe, Ac domum dominam voca Coniugis cupidam novi, Mentem amore revinciens, Vt tenax hedera huc et huc 35Arborem inplicat errans.

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