Pausanias' Description of Greece

Thespia

Role: daughter of Asopus · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 26

Life events

  • Thespia receives its name, according to competing accounts, from Thespia or Thespius.(Book 9 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Thespia)
    • With: Asopus Thespius Erechtheus
    • “The town got its name they say from Thespia the daughter of Asopus. Others say that Thespius the son of Erechtheus came from Athens, and gave his name to it.”

Book 9 · Chapter 26

  • parent: Asopus “The town got its name they say from Thespia the daughter of Asopus.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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