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Thebe

Θήβη

(Θήβη).

1. A daughter of Prometheus, from whom the Boeotian Thebes was believed to have derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.