Thiba
Θίβα
Thiba (Θίβα: Eth. Θίβιος), a district in Pontus, so called from an Amazon slain there by Hercules. The inhabitants were said to be socerers, whose breath was poisonous, and who would not perish if thrown into the water, but would float on the surface. (Eustath. ad Dionys. Per. 828; Steph. B. sub voce Θιβαΐς; Pint. Symp. 5.7.1; Phylarch. ap. Plin. 7.2. s. 2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.