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PETEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Eth. Peteonios. A town of Boeotia, mentioned by Homer (Il. ii. 500),
was situated near the road from Thebes to Anthedon. (Strab. ix. p. 410.) Strabo
contradicts himself in the course of the same page, in one passage placing Peteon
in the Thebais, and in another in the Haliartia. (Comp. Plut. Narr. Am. 4; Plin.
iv. 7. s. 12; Steph. B. s. v.) The position of Peteon is uncertain. Leake supposes
it may be represented by some ancient remains at the southern extremity of the
lake Paralimni. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 320.)
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
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