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ERYTHRES (Ancient city) ATTIKI
Eruthrai: Eth. Eruthraios. An ancient town in Boeotia, mentioned by
Homer, and said to have been the mother-city of Erythrae in Boeotia. (Hom. Il.
ii. 499; Strab. ix.). It lay a little south of the Asopus, at the foot of Mount
Cithaeron. The camp of Mardonius extended along the Asopus from Erythrae and past
Hysiae to the territory of Plataea. (Herod. ix. 15, 25.) Erythrae is frequently
mentioned by other authorities in connection with Hysiae. It was in ruins in the
time of Pausanias. Leake places it to the eastward of Katzula at the foot of the
rocks, where are some foundations of Hellenic walls, together with a church containing
a Doric column and its capital.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town in Boeotia, near Plataea, named after Erythras, its ruins.
named after Erythras: Paus. 6.21.11
its ruins
It is situated 4,5 kms to the E of the Erythrai of today. It had already been located by W.M. Leake since 1805 at the place Pigadia, near the village Katsoulas (Pantazides, Homeric Dictionary).
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