The name of this hill appears to have been also given to the range of mountains separating the plain of Thebes from the valley of the Asopus.
Teumessus was upon the road from Thebes to Chalcis,[1] at the distance of 100 stadia from the former.
[3] Teumessus is celebrated in the epic legends, especially on account of the Teumessian fox, which ravaged the territory of Thebes.
[1][4] The only building at Teumessus mentioned by Pausanias was a temple of Athena Telchinia, without any statue.
[1] Pausanias also mentions that Zeus hid Europa in Teumessus.