Thespiae

E165038
ancient Greek city-state polis

Thespiae was an ancient Greek city-state in Boeotia, noted for its participation in the Persian Wars and its cultural significance in classical Greece.

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Label Occurrences
Thespiae canonical 11

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek city-state ⓘ
polis ⓘ
alliedWith Sparta ⓘ
other Boeotian cities opposed to Thebes ⓘ
coordinateApprox 38.30°N 23.20°E ⓘ
country Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece
culture Ancient Greek ⓘ
destroyedBy Xerxes I ⓘ
destroyedIn 480 BC ⓘ
economyBasedOn agriculture ⓘ
enemyOf Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
surface form: Persian Empire

Thebes ⓘ
famousFor artistic and cultural life ⓘ
sanctuary of Eros ⓘ
governance oligarchy ⓘ
hadCitizensCalled Thespians ⓘ
hadCultOf Eros (primordial) ⓘ
surface form: Eros

the Muses ⓘ
surface form: Muses
knownFor loyalty to the Greek alliance against Persia ⓘ
support of Leonidas I at Thermopylae ⓘ
language Ancient Greek ⓘ
laterControlledBy Macedon ⓘ
Thebes ⓘ
locatedIn Boeotia ⓘ
central Greece ⓘ
surface form: Central Greece
locatedSouthOf Thebes ⓘ
mentionedBy Herodotus ⓘ
Pausanias ⓘ
militaryRole land-based hoplite contingent ⓘ
modernSiteNear Thespies, Greece ⓘ
near Gulf of Corinth ⓘ
Mount Helicon ⓘ
notableEvent evacuation and burning during Xerxes I’s invasion ⓘ
participatedIn Battle of Plataea ⓘ
Battle of Thermopylae ⓘ
Greco-Persian Wars ⓘ
partOf Boeotian League ⓘ
politicalStatus independent polis in the Classical period ⓘ
regionType urban settlement ⓘ
religion Ancient Greek religion ⓘ
repopulatedAfter Greco-Persian Wars ⓘ
sentHopliteContingentTo Battle of Thermopylae ⓘ
sentHoplitesNumber about 700 ⓘ
timePeriod Archaic Greece ⓘ
Classical Greece ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Boeotia → contains → Thespiae ⓘ
Battle of Thermopylae → combatant → Thespiae ⓘ
Boeotians → majorCity → Thespiae ⓘ
Mount Helicon → locatedNearAncientCity → Thespiae ⓘ
Boeotian League → hasMember → Thespiae ⓘ
Ascra → near → Thespiae ⓘ
Praxiteles → associatedWithPlace → Thespiae ⓘ
Helikon → locatedNear → Thespiae ⓘ
Thespian hoplites → country → Thespiae ⓘ
Thespian hoplites → locatedIn → Thespiae ⓘ
Thespian hoplites → militaryAllegiance → Thespiae ⓘ