Thisbe (city)
Thisbe ( Greek Θίσβη , later also Θίσβαι ) was an ancient Greek city in southwest Boeotia between the Helicon and the Gulf of Corinth , where Thisbe had a port. At the same place there is a modern settlement that was formerly called Kakosi (a) and later took on the ancient name ( Thisvi ). This is where the Korinth pipe works is located .
The place was already settled in Mycenaean times. From this phase were u. a. Remnants of Cyclopean masonry found that belonged to the fortification wall. Ceramic finds show a settlement in the 14th and 13th centuries BC. Mycenaean chamber tombs were discovered south and northwest of Thisbe. In the ship catalog of the Iliad , Thisbe is listed with the epithet “fluttering pigeons” (later poets also attributed wealth to pigeons to him). In classical times it belonged to the Boeotian League , but was not a full member, but belonged to Thespiai . In Hellenism Thisbe was independent and was during the Macedonian Roman Third War 172 v. Conquered by the Romans , who two years later regulated the city's affairs in a Senate resolution (senatus consultum de Thisbaeis) , which has been handed down in inscriptions in Greek . Inscriptions from the Roman Empire up to the 3rd century AD have been preserved.
The city's fortification walls are still partially preserved, as well as numerous reliefs and inscriptions. Pausanias mentions a Heracles sanctuary in Thisbe.
literature
- Klaus Friday : Thisbe. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 .
- Paul Roesch: Thisbe (Thisvi, formerly Kakosi) Boiotia, Greece. . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Remarks
- ↑ Penelope A. Mountjoy , Regional Mycenaean Decorated Pottery (Rahden, 1999), ISBN 3-89646-011-0 , Vol. 2, p. 642 names SH III A and SH III B ceramics.
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 2:502.
- ^ Inscriptiones Graecae 7, 2225 .
- ^ Pausanias 9, 32, 2.
Coordinates: 38 ° 15 ' N , 22 ° 58' E