Thespiades

A surname of the Muses. It derives from Thespiae in Boeotia, where they were especially honored.

References

Sources

  • C. Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica ii, 368.
  • Ovid. Metamorphoses v, 3.10.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 29.3 ff.
  • Varro. On the Latin Language vii, 70.