Thespius
Θέσπιος
(Θέσπιος), a son of Erectheus, who, according to some, founded the town of Thespiae in Boeotia. (Paus. 9.26.4; Diod. 4.29; comp. Schol. ad Hom. Il. 2.948; Apollod. 2.7.8.) His descendants are called Thespiades (Apollod. 2.4.10; Senec. Herc. Oet. 369), which name is also given to the Muses. (Ov. Met. 5.310.)
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.