Map of Central Greece from above, Thebes Archaeological Museum marked with a wine glass

Museum · Central Greece

Thebes Archaeological Museum

Boeotian rare finds including Mycenaean cylinder seals and Tanagra painted clay larnakes (only mainland examples), reopened 2015.

What to do there

AdventureThebes Archaeological MuseumThebes was Dionysus's mythological birthplace - where Zeus impregnated Semele and later rescued the infant from her ashes. The museum displays Mycenaean finds including Linear B tablets mentioning Dionysus (di-wo-nu-so), the earliest written reference to the god. The myth of Pentheus torn apart by maenads was set here.

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