Phthiotic Thebes or Thessalian Thebes was a city and polis in ancient Thessaly, Greece; its site was north of the modern village of Mikrothives and its harbour was at Pyrasus.

Thessaly or Thessalia was one of the traditional regions of Ancient Greece. During the Mycenaean period, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, a name that continued to be used for one of the major tribes of G