Thamy̆ris. Thracian bard, blinded by the Muses for presuming to challenge them.
Theano (1). Wife of Antenor and priestess of Athene at Troy.
Theāno (2). Female philosopher of Pythagoras's school, perhaps his wife.
Thebe. A daughter of Prometheus, from whom Thebes had its name.
Themistocles. Saviour of Greece in the Persian war, 480-478 B.C.; he convinced the Athenians that the famous oracle meant by 'wooden walls,' and 'divine Salamis,' to promise a naval victory there if they trusted to their fleet.
Theophrastus. Head of the Peripatetic school after Aristotle.
Theopompus. Of Chios, historian, of the fourth century B.C.
Thericles. A Corinthian potter, of uncertain date.
Thersītes. A Greek at Troy, deformed, impudent, and a demagogue.
Theseus. Son of Aegeus, king of Athens. Destroyed Sciron, Pityocamptes, Cercyon, and other evil-doers. Slew the Minotaur (see Minos II) in the Cretan Labyrinth, and escaped thence by means of the clue given to him by Minos's daughter Ariadne, of whom he was enamoured, but whom he afterwards deserted in Naxos, where she was found and married by Dionysus. Made an expedition against the Amazons, and carried off their queen Antiope, whose sister Hippolyta afterwards invaded Attica, but was repelled by Theseus. By Antiope he had a son Hippolytus, with whom his second wife Phaedra fell in love. Assisted by his friend Pirithoüs, Theseus carried off Helen from Sparta, and kept her at Aphidnae.