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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 5322216, member: 103829&quot;][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]</p><p>At first sight I found your new interpretation convincing. Then I researched my literature and found that most sources do not mention the nymph Thespia as founder of the cityof Thespis, but Thespios (also Thestios), the son of King Erechtheus of Athens. The nymph Thespia and her abduction by Apollo is only mentioned very briefly by Diodorus Siculus, and that she was the founder of the city is only mentioned by Pausanias. All in all, this is only weak evidence, especially since Pausanias also had something against the impregnation of the 50 daughters of Thespios by Herakles. He seems to have been somewhat biased against Thespios.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is said that a Thespia by Memnon was the mother of the Muses, who were therefore also called Thespiades. Whether she was identical with the Thespia of Diodorus Siculus and Pausanias is not exactly known. There is also no information about her in known writers. Korinna (Lat. Corinna), who was compared to Sappho in antiquity, seems to me to have had more connections with this second Thespia, the Mother of the Muses. I don&#039;t know if a poet like her, who also glorified her homeland Boeotia, can be made the chief witness when it comes to the mythology of the nymph Thespia.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is said to have been a cult of the Muses in the city of Thespia. But their temple was only small and the statues were made of stone (Pausanias). The main cult in Thespia was the cult of Eros. At its festivals, virgins danced around a phallos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards</p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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