# Siphae

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**Siphae** or **Siphai** (Ancient Greek: Σῖφαι),[1][2][3][4][5] also known as **Tipha** (Τίφα),[6] was a town of [ancient Boeotia](/source/Ancient_Boeotia), upon the [Corinthian Gulf](/source/Corinthian_Gulf), which was said to have derived its name from [Tiphys](/source/Tiphys), the pilot of the [Argonauts](/source/Argonauts). In the time of [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)) the inhabitants of Siphae pointed out the spot where the ship [Argo](/source/Argo) anchored on its return from its celebrated voyage. The same writer mentions a temple of [Heracles](/source/Heracles) at Siphae, in whose honour an annual festival was celebrated.[6][1] [Apollonius Rhodius](/source/Apollonius_Rhodius)[7] and [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium)[3] describe Siphae as a dependency of [Thespiae](/source/Thespiae).[8]

Its site is located near modern [Aliki](/source/Alyki,_Boeotia).[9][10]

## References

1. *[Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax](/source/Periplus_of_Pseudo-Scylax)*, p. 15

1. [Apollonius Rhodius](/source/Apollonius_Rhodius), *[Argonautica](/source/Argonautica)*, 1.105.

1. *Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites*. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1976., [s.v. Thespiai](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:entry=thespial).

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