Thespiae

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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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Thespiae canonical 11

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

Thebes
famousFor artistic and cultural life
sanctuary of Eros
governance oligarchy
hadCitizensCalled Thespians
hadCultOf Eros
linked to: Eros (primordial)

Muses
linked to: the 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
linked to: 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

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Boeotia contains Thespiae
Boeotians majorCity Thespiae
Boeotian League hasMember Thespiae
Ascra near Thespiae
Helikon locatedNear Thespiae
Thespian hoplites country Thespiae
Thespian hoplites locatedIn Thespiae