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Greek & Roman Geography (ed. William Smith)

Corseia

Corseia (Korseia), 1. A town of Boeotia, sometimes included in Opuntian Locris, was the first place which the traveller reached after crossing Mt. Khlomo from Cyrtones. In the Sacred War it was taken by the Phocians, along with Orchomenus and Coroneia. In the plain below, the river Platanius joined the sea. Its site is probably represented by the village Proskyna, on the heights above which are the remains of an ancient acropolis. (Paus. ix. 24. § 5; Diod. xvi. 58; Dem. de Fals. Leg. p. 385; called Chorsia by Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 184; Forchhammer, Hellenika, p. 179.)
2. Scylax mentions Korsiai as aport of Boeotia on the Corinthian gulf. It appears from Pliny that there was a second town of this name in the western part of Boeotia, and that it was distinguished from the other by the name of Thebae Corsicae. ( Thebis quae Corsicae cognominatae sunt juxta Heliconem, Plin. iv. 3. s. 4.) It is probably represented by the modern Khosia. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. P. 521.)

This is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


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