Thesprotia
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Thesprotian coast · the land of Thesprotia
in the texts
Against Alcibiades
Region named as one of the destinations of the speaker's diplomatic missions.
I have been sent on missions to Thessaly, to Macedonia, to Molossia, to Thesprotia, to Italy, and to Sicily.
Phoenissae
Region named by Creon as the next stage of Menoeceus's planned flight, en route to Dodona.
To the land of Thesprotia.
Odyssey
The coastal land where the shipwrecked narrator is washed ashore and rescued by King Pheidon.
Nine days did I drift but in the darkness of the tenth night a great wave bore me on to the Thesprotian coast.