A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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THEBE (~77~v). 1. A daughter of Prome- li pol. 737.) She is often represented on coins
theus, from whom the Boeotian Thebes was be- resembling the figure of Athena with a cornucopia
lieved to have derived its name. (Steph. Byz. and a pair of scales. (Gellius, xiv. 4; Hirt, Mya. v,) tiol. Bilderb. p. 112; Miiller, Anc. Art and its
2. A daughter of Asopus and Metope, the Remn. ~406.)
daughter of Laden, became by Zeus the mother of 2. A daughter of Ilus and the wife of Capys, by
Zethus. She, too, is said to have given her name whom she became the mother of Anchises. (Apolto the city of Thebes. (Apollod. iii. 5. ~ 6; Paus. lod. iii. 12. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
ii. 5. ~ 2, v. 22. ~ 5; Pind. Isthm. viii. 37; Diod. THEMIS or THEOMIS, the name of a poet
iv. 72.) [L. S.] to whom some late Greek writers ascribe the inTHEIA (Osea). 1. A daughter of Uranus and vention of tragedy, is probably nothing more than
Ge, one of the female Titans, became by Hyperion a corruption of Thespis. (Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen.
the mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene, that is, she Dicktkunst, vol. iii. pt. 1. p. 34.) [P. S.]
was regarded as the deity from which all light THE'MISON (OeijuLow,). 1. A merchant of the
proceeded. (Hes. Theog. 135, 371; Pind. Isthm. v. island of Thera, who, according to the Cyrenaean
1; Apollod. i. 1. ~ 3, 2. ~ 2; Catull. 66. 44.) accounts of the foundation of their city, was the
2. A daughter of Oceanus and mother of the instrument made use of by Etearchus, king ofAxus,
Cercopes. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1864; Tzetz. ad for the destruction of his daughter Phronime.
Lycoph&. 91.) [L. S.] [ETEARCHUS.] Themison, however, evaded the
THEIAS (Oetas), a king of the Assyrians, and fulfilment of the oath by which he had involuntarily
father of Smyrna, the mother of Adonis. (Apollod. bound himself to drown Phronime, and carried her
iii. 14. ~ 4; Anton. Lib. 34; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. in safety to Thera. (Herod. iv. 154.)
829; comp. ADONIS.) [L. S.] 2. A tyrant of Eretria who in B. C. 366 assisted
THEIO'DAMAS (elosa&uas), the father of the exiles of Oropus in recovering possession of
HTylas, and king of the Dryopes. (Apollod. ii. 7. their native city. They succeeded in occupying it
~ 7; Apollon. Rhod. i. 1213, and his Schol. on i. by surprise, but the Athenians having marched
1207; Propert. i. 20. 6: comp. HYLAS.) [L. S.] against them with their whole force, Themison was
THEIODAS. [THEUDAS.] unable to cope with their power, and called in the
THEISOA (OEsLoa), one of the nymphs who Thebans to his assistance, who received possession
brought up the infant Zeus, was worshipped at of the city as a deposit, but afterwards refused to
Theisoa in Arcadia. (Paus. viii. 38. ~~ 3, 7, 47. ~ give it up. (Diod. xv. 76; Xen. Hell. vii. 4. ~ 1;
2.) [L. S.] Dem. de Cor. p. 259.)
THELXION (~EhAowv), in conjunction with 3. Of Samos, a naval officer in the service of
Telchin, murdered Apis, when he attempted to Antigonus, king of Asia. In B.c. 315 we find
subjugate Peloponnesus; but they themselves were him joining that chief in Phoenicia, with a fleet of
slain in return by Argus Panoptes. (Apollod. ii. I. forty ships from the Hellespont, and again in 306
~ 1, &c.) Pausanias ( ii. 5. ~ 5) calls hinm a son he is mentioned as commanding a part of the fleet
of Apis and the father of Aegyrus. [L. S.] of Demetrius, in the great sea-fight off Salamis in
THEMIS (o4auLs). 1. A daughter of Uranus Cyprus. (Diod. xix. 62, xx. 50.)
(others say Helios, Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 129) and 4. A Cyprian, who enjoyed a high place in the
Ge, was married to Zeus, by whom she became favour of Antiochus II. king of Syria, which he
the mother of the Horae, Eunomia, Dice (Astraea), had earned by the basest means as the minister
Eirene, and the Moerae. (Hes. Theog. 135, 901, and companion of his abandoned pleasures. The
&c.; Apollod. i. 3. ~ 1.) In the Homeric poems, king is said to have committed to him and his
Themis is the personification of the order of things brother Aristus, the whole administration of affairs,
established by law, custom, and equity, whence she and not only presented Themison to the people on
is described as reigning in the assemblies of men public occasions in the garb of Heracles, but caused
(Od. ii. 68, &c.), and as convening, by the con- sacrifices to be offered to him under that title.
mand of Zeus, the assembly of the gods. (II. xx. (Athen. vii. p. 289, x. p. 438, c; Aelian. V. H
4.) She dwells in Olympus, and is on friendly ii. 41.)
terms with Hera. (xv. 87, &c.) This character of 5. An officer in the service of Antiochus the
Themis was recognised in the fact that at Thebes Great, who commanded the cavalry which formed
she had a sanctuary in common with the Moerae the left wing of his army at the battle of Raphia,
and Zeus Agoraeus (Paus. ix. 25. ~ 4), and at B.c. 217. (Polyb. v. 79, 82.) [E.H. B.]
Olympia in common with the Horae. (Paus. v. 14. THE'MISON (Oeleiowv), the name of probably
~ 8, 17. ~ 1; comp. Diod. v. 67.) Besides this she three physicians. 1. The founder of the ancient
is also described as an ancient prophetic divinity, medical sect of the Methodici, and one of the
and is said to have been in possession of the Del- most eminent physicians of his time, was a native
phic oracle as the successor of Ge, and previous to of Laodiceia in Syria (Pseudo-Gal. Introd. c. 4.
Apollo. (Ov. Met. i. 321, iv. 642; Apollon. Rhod. vol. xiv. p. 684). He was a pupil of Asclepiades
iv. 800; Serv. adAen. iv. 246; Apollod. i. 4. ~ 1; of Bithynia (Pliny, H. N. xxix. 5), and must
Paus. x. 5. ~ 3; Aeschyl. Eum. init.) The wor- have lived, therefore, in the first century B. c.
ship of Themis was established at Thebes, Olym- Augustin, in his Gesch. der lMed. in tabellarischer
pia, Athens (Paus. i. 22. ~ 1), at Tanagra (ix. 22. Form, says he was born B. c. 123, and died B. C.
~ 1), and at Troezene, where an altar was dedi- 43, which may possibly be quite correct, though he
cated to the Thiemides. (ii. 31. ~ 8.) Nymphs be- has not stated his reasons for giving such exact
lieved to be daughters of Zeus and Themis lived in dates. Nothing more is known of the events of
a cave on the river Eridanus (Apollod. ii. 5. ~ 11; his life, except that he seems to have travelled a
Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1396; Hesych. s. v. good deal; as he mentions Crete and Milan, appaOepioTLdSes), and the Hesperides also are called rently as an eye-witness (ap. Cael. Aurel. De Moth.
daughters of Zeus and Themis. (Schol. ad Eurip. Acut. iii. 18, p. 252). Neither is it certain whether