Editing Thespis (section)

==Alleged works==
Titles of some plays have been attributed to Thespis. But most modern scholars, following the suggestion of [[Diogenes Laërtius]], consider them to be forgeries, some forged by the philosopher [[Heraclides Ponticus]], others produced rather later, in the [[Common Era]]:<ref>Diogenes Laertius, Book V, Heraclides, 92: "And Aristoxenus the musician says, that he composed tragedies, and inscribed them with the name of Thespis."</ref><ref>[[Johann August Nauck]],''Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta'' (1887), p. 832: "Thespidis quaecumque feruntur ab impostoribus esse ficta vix est quod moneam, et proditur hoc fraudis genere usus esse Heraclides Ponticus......Heraclidis igitur crediderim esse fr.1-3; nam fr.4 non dubito quin alteri post Christum saeculo debeatur."</ref>
*''Contest of Pelias and Phorbas''
*''Hiereis'' (''Priests'')
*''Hemitheoi'' (''Demigods'')
*''Pentheus''

Fragments (probably spurious) in [[Johann August Nauck|A. Nauck]], ''Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta'' (1887).<ref>[[Johann August Nauck]],''Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta'' (1887), pp. 832–833.</ref>