Thespius was a legendary king of Thespiae, Boeotia. Thespiae ( Greek Θεσπιαι Thespiai) was an ancient Greek city in Boeotia. Boeotia, Beotia, or Bœotia ( Greek: Βοιωτία - English biːˈoʊʃiə formerly Cadmeis was a region of Ancient Greece, north of the His life account is considered part of Greek mythology. Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance
Life account
He was reportedly son of Erechtheus, King of Athens and Praxithea. Erechtheus (Ἐρεχθεύς in Greek Mythology was the name of a King of Athens, and a secondary name for two other characters In Homer Before the Athenian democracy, the Tyrants and the Archons the City-state of Athens was ruled by kings. In Greek mythology, Praxithea (Πραξιθέα or Pasithea was a name attributed to five women His maternal grandparents were Phrasimus and Diogenia. Diogenia was daughter of the river god Cephissus. Cephissus (Athenian plain (Greek Κήφισσος Kifissós Kephissós Kêphissos or Cephisus (Greek Κήφισος Kêphissos) a river flowing through the Athenian He married Megamede, daughter of Arneus. They reportedly had fifty daughters together. Though Thespius may have fathered some of the daughters from unnamed mistresses with Megamede being their stepmother. All his daughters came of marrying age but Thespius seems to have sought no husband for them. He instead desired grandchildren from the hero Heracles. A hero (from Greek grc ἥρως hērōs) in Greek mythology and Folklore, was originally a Demigod, the offspring of a mortal and In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera " or When Heracles was assigned to kill a lion (not to be confused with the Nemean Lion), Thespius offered his fifty daughters as a prize. The lion ( Panthera leo) is a member of the family Felidae and one of four Big cats in the Genus Panthera. The Nemean lion ( Modern Greek: Λέων της Νεμέας (Léōn tēs Neméas Latin: Leo Nemaeus was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived The hunt for the lion lasted fifty days, and during each night of the hunt Heracles slept with each of the fifty daughters, who in turn each gave birth to one son. Alternate sources claim that Heracles slept with the daughters in a single night. In this version, only forty-nine slept with the hero, with the fiftieth being destined to serve as a virgin priestess in a temple to Herakles. In this version there were fifty-one grandsons of Thespius, of which forty colonized the island of Sardinia. Sardinia (sɑrˈdɪnɪə Sardegna Sardigna or Sardinnya is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily) The daughters are often referred to as the Thespiades. The daughters of Thespius were the subject of a 1853 painting by Gustave Moreau. Gustave Moreau ( April 6, 1826 &ndash April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter.
Daughters and grandchildren
The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus lists the following daughters and grandchildren. The Bibliotheca (in English: Library) in three books provides a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic Legends The grandchildren were all Heracleidae in the wider sense of the term. In Greek mythology, the Heracleidae or Heraclids were the numerous descendants of Heracles (Hercules especially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants
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