Thespis
Θέσπις
(Θέσπις).
1. The celebrated father of Greek tragedy, has no personal history disconnected from the history of his art, and it is therefore considered unnecessary to repeat here what has already been said with sufficient fulness respecting him, under TRAGOEDIA, in the Dictionary of Antiquities.
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.