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YSSIES (Ancient city) ATTIKI
Husiai, Husia, Eth. Husieus. A town of Boeotia, in the Parasopia,
at the northern foot of Mt. Cithaeron, and on the high road from Thebes to Athens.
It was said to have been a colony from Hyria, and to have been founded by Nyeteus,
father of Antiope. (Strab. ix. p. 404.) Herodotus says that both Hysiae and Oenoe
were Attic demi when they were taken by the Boeotians in B.C. 507. (Herod. v.
74.) It probably, however, belonged to Plataea. (Comp. Herod. vi. 108.) Oenoe
was recovered by the Athenians; but, as Mt. Cithaeron was the natural boundary
between Attica and Boeotia, Hysiae continued to be a Boeotian town. Hysiae is
mentioned in the operations which preceded the battle of Plataea. (Herod. ix.
15, 25.) Hysiae was in ruins in the time of Pausanias, who noticed there an unfinished
temple of Apollo and a sacred well. (Paus. ix. 2. § 1.) Leake observed a little
beyond the great road at the foot of the mountain, a great quantity of loose stones
in the fields, together with some traces of ancient walls, and the mouth of a
well or cistern, of Hellenic construction, now filled up. This we may conclude
to be the site of Hysiae. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 327.) Hysiae is
mentioned also in the following passages: Eurip. Bacch. 751; Thuc. iii. 24, v.
83.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Some say that Hysiae is called Hyria, belonging to the Parasopian country below Cithaeron, near Erythrae, in the interior, and that it is a colony of the Hyrieans and was founded by Nycteus, the father of Antiope (Strab. 9,2,12).
In Boeotia, its ruins.
A village on the slopes of Cithaeron, in Attica; taken by Boeotians, part played by it on the battlefield of Plataea.
The ancient site was identified by W.M.Leake in 1805 on the Pantanasa hill, 2km to the E of the modern town of Erythres.
Thought to be situated on the road from Eleusis to Thebes, on the N slope of Mt. Kithairon near Kriekouki on the Pantanassa peak. Noted as early as Kleomenes' Invasion in 507 B.C., it played an important role in the Plataians' invasion (Hdt. 5.74, 6.108). It was in ruins in Pausanias' day (9.1.6; 2.1; cf. Strab. 9.2.12).
Y. Bequignon, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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