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AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
Eth. Aulideus fem. Aulidis. A town of Boeotia, situated on the Euripus,
and celebrated as the place at which the Grecian fleet assembled, when they were
about to sail against Troy. Strabo says that the harbour of Aulis could only hold
fifty ships, and that therefore the Grecian fleet must have assembled in the large
port in the neighbourhood, called Bathus limen. (Strab. ix. p. 403.) Livy states
(xlv. 27) that Aulis was distant three miles from Chalcis. Aulis appears to have
stood upon a rocky height, since it is called by Homer (Il. ii. 303) Aulis petreessa,
and by Strabo petrodes chorion. These statements agree with the position assigned
to Aulis by modern travellers. About three miles south of Chaletis on the Boeotian
coast are two bays separated from each other by a rocky peninsula; the northern
is small and winding, the southern spreads out at the end of a channel into a
large circular basin. The latter harbour, as well as a village situated a mile
to the southward of it, is called Vathy, a name evidently derived from Bathus
limen. (Leake.) We may therefore conclude that Aulis was situated on the rocky
peninsula between these two bays.
Aulis was in the territory of Tanagra. It is called a kome by Strabo.
In the time of Pausanias it had only a few inhabitants, who were potters. Its
temple of Artemis, which Agamemnon is said to have founded, was still standing
when Pausanias visited the place. (Dicaearch. 88; Paus. ix. 19. § 6, seq.; Plin.
iv. 7. s. 12)
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
MYKALISSOS (Ancient city) EVIA
Mukalessos: Eth. Mukalessios. An ancient town of Boeotia, mentioned
by Homer. (Il. ii. 498, Hymn. Apoll. 224.) It was said to have been so called,
because the cow, which was guiding Cadmus and his comrades to Thebes, lowed (emukesato)
in this place. (Paus. ix. 19. § 4.) In B.C. 413, some Thracians, whom the Athenians
were sending home to their own country, were landed on the Euripus, and surprised
Mycalessus. They not only sacked the town, but put all the inhabitants to the
sword, not sparing even the women and children. Thucydides says that this was
one of the greatest calamities that had ever befallen any city. (Thuc. vii. 29;
Paus. i. 23. § 3.) Strabo (ix. p. 404) calls Mycalessus a village in the territory
of Tanagra, and places it upon the road from Thebes to Chalcis. In the time of
Pausanias it had ceased to exist; and this writer saw the ruins of Harma and Mycalessus
on his road to Chalcis. (Paus. ix. 19. § 4.) Pausanias mentions a temple of Demeter
Mycalessia, standing in the territory of the city upon the sea-coast, and situated
to the right of the Euripus, by which he evidently meant south of the strait.
The only other indication of the position of Mycalessus is the statement of Thucydides
(l. c.), that it was 16 stadia distant from the Hermaeum, which was on the sea-shore
near the Euripus. It is evident from these accounts, that Mycalessus stood near
the Euripus; and Leake places it, with great probability, upon the height immediately
above the southern bay of Egripo, where the ruined walls of an ancient city still
remain. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 249, seq., 264.) It is true, as Leake remarks,
that this position does not agree with the statement of Strabo, that Mycalessus
was on the road from Thebes to Chalcis, since the above-mentioned ruins are nearly
two miles to the right of that road; but Strabo writes loosely of places which
he had never seen. Mycalessus is also mentioned in Strab. ix. pp. 405, 410; Paus.
iv. 7. s. 12.
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
YRIA (Ancient city) AVLIDA
Huria: Eth. Huriates. A Boeotian town, mentioned by Homer along with Aulis. Hence
it was placed near Aulis; but its position was quite uncertain, and some of the
ancient critics identified it, though without sufficient reason, with Hysiae.
Strabo placed it in the territory of Tanagra.
AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
A harbour in Boeotia on the Euripus, where the Greek forces assembled before sailing for Troy.
MYKALISSOS (Ancient city) EVIA
(Mukalessos). An ancient city in Boeotia, on the road from Aulis to Thebes. In B.C. 413 it was sacked by some Thracian mercenaries in the pay of Athens. Here was a famous temple of Demeter, who was in consequence called Mycalessia.
YRIA (Ancient city) AVLIDA
A town in Boeotia near Tanagra.
AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
City of Boeotia
along the shore facing Euboea.
Aulis is the location where the Greek fleet gathered under the leadership
of Agamemnon to undertake the expedition against Troy,
and where Agamemnon had to sacrifice his own daughter Iphigenia to the goddess
Artemis to put an end to the lack of wind that was holding the fleet there.
Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 1998), ed.
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AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
Situated on the Boiotian shore of the Euripos, between the bay of
Mikro Vathy to the N and the bay and village of Vathy to the S. According to legend
it was here that the Greek fleet gathered before setting sail for Troy and awaited
the favorable winds that Againeinnon obtained by sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia
to Arteinis (Eur., Iphigeneia at Aulis). Remains of a Mycenaean settlement have
been located on the rocky Yeladhovouni promontory separating the two bays. Never
a city, Aulis was part of the Theban districts up to 387 B.C., then of the territory
of Tanagra. Agelisaus, king of Sparta, the new Agamemnon, sacrificed here before
setting off for Asia in 397 B.C. Aulis depended for its livelihood on the sanctuary,
its potters' workshops, and fishing.
The Sanctuary of Artemis Aulideia was excavated from 1955 to 1961
by I. Threpsiadis. Open to the SE, the temple is built on the oblong archaic plan
(31 x 9.70 m). In front of the two columns in antis of the 5th c. temple a prostoon
of four Doric columns was added in the Hellenistic period. Inside the sekos were
two rows of four columns; in the rear a double door, whose marble threshold has
been preserved, led to the adyton; two statues of Arteinis and Apollo flanked
the doorway, and in front of the N statue was a round altar for libations, with
a drain. A large base found in the sekos may have been used to support the 1000-year-old
plane tree mentioned by Pausanias (9.19.7). Inside the adyton, which measured
3.70 x 7.55 m, was the offering table, part of which has been recovered, along
with a triangular tripod base and two round altars. Underneath the pronaos were
found the remains of a circular building assumed to date from the 8th c. B.C.
In Roman times all the columns were replaced; later the prostoon was incorporated
into some small therinae covering part of the sekos.
In front of the temple a square fountain was excavated which measured
1.8 m square inside; six steps led down inside it. Close by are the remains of
an altar. SW of the temple were found two or three potters' establishments, with
a store of clay and a kiln. A large hostelry for pilgrims was immediately to the
S.
P. Roesch, 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.
MYKALISSOS (Ancient city) EVIA
A town belonging to the earliest Boiotian League, flourishing from
the 6th c. until its destruction and the massacre of its inhabitants by the Athenians
in 413 B.C. Strabo classed it as a village belonging to Tanagra. There are a few
remains of undated walls at Rhitsona, which is generally accepted as the site
of Mykalessos. Excavations have concentrated on graves, largely of the 6th c.,
but also 5th c. and Hellenistic, which produced material of considerable importance
for the history of Greek ceramics. Pausanias mentions a Sanctuary of Mykalessian
Demeter on the shore of the Euripos, which was probably near the modern village
of Megalovouno above Aulis. The ancient wall which appears on both sides of the
road through the Anaghoritis pass marks the Chalkis-Thebes boundary. Frazer suggested
a nearby location for the Hermaion mentioned in Thucydides' account of the Athenian
attack, while locating Livy's Hermaion on the Euripos at a ferry terminus.
M. H. Mc Allister, 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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