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ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
They say that the place now occupied by Lake Copais was formerly dry ground, and that it was tilled in all kinds of ways when it was subject to the Orchomenians, who lived near it. And this fact, accordingly, is adduced as an evidence of their wealth (Strab. 9.2.40).
AKREFNION (Ancient city) THIVES
ALALKOMENES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Triton. A river, a small torrent. They call it Triton, because the story is that beside a river Triton Athena was reared.(Paus. 9.33.7)
ARTEMISSION (Ancient city) ISTIEA
Artemisium (Artemision). The name of the northern coast and of a promontory of Euboea, immediately opposite the Thessalian Magnesia, so called from the temple of Artemis Proseoa, belonging to the town of Histiaea. It was off this coast that the Grecian fleet fought with the fleet of Xerxes, B.C. 480. (Herod. vii. 175, viii. 8; Plut. Them. 7; Diod. xi. 12.)
CHALKIS (Ancient city) EVIA
A fountain close to Chalcis in Euboea, which was sometimes disturbed by volcanic
agency. Dicaearchus says that its water was so abundant as to be sufficient to
supply the whole city with water. (Dicaearch. Bios tes Hellados, p. 146, ed. Fuhr;
Strab. i. p. 58, x. p. 449; Eurip. Iphig. in Aul. 170; Plin. iv. 12.) There were
tame fish kept in this fountain. (Athen. viii. p. 331, e. f.) Leake says that
this celebrated fountain has now totally disappeared. (Northern Greece, vol. ii.
p. 255.)
DAVLIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In the territory of Daulis is a place called Tronis. Here has been built a shrine of the Founder hero. This founder is said by some to have been Xanthippus, a distinguished soldier; others say that he was Phocus, son of Ornytion, son of Sisyphus. At any rate, he is worshipped every day, and the Phocians bring victims and pour the blood into the grave through a hole, but the flesh they are wont to consume on the spot.
The Cleft Road (on which Oedipus slew his father) and the rash deed committed on it by Oedipus were the beginning of his troubles, and the tombs of Laius and the servant who followed him are still just as they were in the very middle of the place where the three roads meet, and over them have been piled unhewn stones. According to the story, it was Damasistratus, king of Plataea, who found the bodies lying and buried them.
DELFI (Ancient sanctuary) FOKIDA
Schiste (he schiste hodos, the name of the road leading from Delphi
into Central Greece, was more particularly applied to the spot where the road
divided into two, and which was called treis keleuthoi, reckoning the road to
Delphi as one of the three. Of the other two roads, the NE. led to Daulis; the
SE. parted into two, one leading to Trachis and Lebadeia, the other to Ambrysus
and Stiris. At the spot where the three roads met was the tomb of Laius and his
servant, who were here slain by Oedipus. It must have stood at the entrance of
the Zimeno Derveni, or opening between the mountains Cirphis and Parnassus, which
leads to Delphi. The road from this point becomes very steep and rugged towards
Delphi, as Pausanias has described it. (Aeschyl. Oed. Tyr. 733; Eurip. Phoen.
38; Paus. ix. 2. § 4, x. 5. § 3; leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 105.)
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ELATIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Philoboeotus (Philoboiotos), a fertile woody hill in the plain of Elateia in Phocis,
at the foot of which there was water. (Plut. Sull. 16.) This description, according
to Leake, agrees with the remarkable insulated conical height between Bissikeni
and the Cephissus. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 194.)
EPIKNIMIDIA LOKRIS (Ancient area) FTHIOTIDA
Nicaea (Nikaia: Eth. Nikaieus), a fortress of the Locri Epicnemidii,
situated upon the sea, and close to the pass of Thermopylae. It is described by
Aeschines as one of the places which commanded the pass. (De Fals. Leg. p. 45,
ed. Steph.) It was the first Locrian town after Alpenos, the latter being at the
very entrance of the pass. The surrender of Nicaea by Phalaecus to Philip, in
B.C. 346, made the Macedonian king master of Thermopylae, and brought the Sacred
War to an end. (Diod. xvi. 59.) Philip kept possession of it for some time, but
subsequently gave it to the Thessalians along with Magnesia. (Dem. Phil. ii. p.
153, ed. Reiske; Aesch. c. Ctesiph. p. 73, ed. Steph.) But in B.C. 340 we again
find Nicaea in the possession of Philip. (Dern. in Phil. Ep. p. 153.) According
to Memnon (ap. Phot. p. 234, a., ed. Bekker; c. 41; ed. Orelli) Nicaea was destroyed
by the Phocians, and its inhabitants founded the Bithynian Nicaea. But even if
this is true, the town must have been rebuilt soon afterwards, since we find it
in the hands of the Aetolians during the Roman wars in Greece. (Polyb. x. 42,
xvii. 1; Liv. xxviii. 5, xxxii. 32.) Subsequently the town is only mentioned by
Strabo (ix. p. 426). Leake identifies Nicaea with the castle of Pundonitza, where
there are Hellenic remains. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 5, seq.)
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ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
And another river of the same name flows from Arcadia to the coast near Bura; and there is another Erasinus in the territory of Eretria, and still another in Attica near Brauron.
A place on the coast of Euboea near Eretria
Part of district of Eretria.
EVIA (Island) GREECE
The parts between Aulis and the region of Geraestus are called the Hollows of Euboea; for the coast bends inwards
There are now two rivers in Euboea, the Cereus and the Neleus; and the sheep which drink from one of them turn white, and from the other black.
EVIA (Ancient city) EVIA
(Kotulaion), a mountain in Euboea, at the foot of which Tamynae was
situated. (Aeschin. in Ctesiph. p. 480; Steph. B. s. v.)
FOKIS (Ancient area) GREECE
Cachales (Kalales), a river of Phocis, rising in Mt. Parnassus, and
flowing by Tithorea into the Cephissus. (Paus. x. 32. § 11; Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. ii. pp. 78, 81.)
GORGOPOTAMOS (Village) FTHIOTIDA
Today's Gorgopotamos confluent of Sperchios, SE at the river bank which is in the village.
KALLIDROMO (Mountain) FTHIOTIDA
KIRYNTHOS (Ancient city) CHALKIDA
Cerinthus, a small city by the sea; and near it is the Budorus River, which bears the same name as the mountain in Salamis which is close to Attica.
KITHERON (Mountain) VIOTIA
(Paus. 9,3,9). Plutarchus mentions (Arist. 11) that in the old times there was an oracle in the cave and that whoever went there got so excited that the others called them "nymph-stricken".
KORONIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Mountain of Boeotia. The Libethrian nymphs and the spring Libethrias there.
KORSIES (Ancient city) THISVI
River of Boeotia.
LARYMNA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Anchoe, a place on the borders of Boeotia and of Locris, near Upper Larymna, at
which the waters of the Cephissus broke forth from their subterraneous channel.
There was also a lake of the same name at this place. (Strab. ix. pp. 406, 407;
Plin. iv. 7. s. 12; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 289.)
LEFYSTION (Mountain) LEVADIA
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LEVADIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
They say that here Hercyna, when playing with the Maid, the daughter of Demeter, held a goose which against her will she let loose. The bird flew into a hollow cave and hid under a stone; the Maid entered and took the bird as it lay under the stone. The water flowed, they say, from the place where the Maid took up the stone, and hence the river received the name of Hercyna. On the bank of the river there is a temple of Hercyna, in which is a maiden holding a goose in her arms. In the cave are the sources of the river and images standing, and serpents are coiled around their scepters. One might conjecture the images to be of Asclepius and Health, but they might be Trophonius and Hercyna, because they think that serpents are just as much sacred to Trophonius as to Asclepius.
MALIAKOS GULF (Gulf) FTHIOTIDA
Anticyra, a town in Thessaly in the district Malis at the mouth of the Spercheus. (Herod. vii. 198; Strab. pp. 418, 434.) According to Stephanus (s. v. Antikurai) the best hellebore was grown at this place, and one of its citizens exhibited the medicine to Heracles, when labouring under madness in this neighbourhood
MANDILI (Cape) EVIA
But when Pelops learned that from her, he threw Myrtilus into the sea, called after him the Myrtoan Sea, at Cape Geraestus ; and Myrtilus, as he was being thrown, uttered curses against the house of Pelops.
MEDEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
The Boeotian Medeon was at the base of this mountain (Stravo 9,2,26).
MESSOPOTAMIA (Village) SPERCHIADA
OZOLEA LOKRIS (Ancient area) FOKIDA
Hylaethus or Hylaetus (Hulaithos or Hulaitos), a river in Locris Ozolis,
flowing through Locris near the eastern frontier of Aetolia into the Corinthian
gulf. Leake supposes it to be the modern Morno, and to have derived its name from
Hyle, a town in Phocis mentioned by Stephanus B. (Dicaearch. 67; Steph. B. s.
v. Hule; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 619.)
PARAPOTAMII (Ancient city) CHERONIA
Assus (Assos: Kineta), a river of Boeotia, flowing into the Cephissus on its left bank, near the city of the Parapotamii and Mount Edylium. (Plut. Sull. 16; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 195.)
PLATEES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
This road leads to Plataea from Eleutherae. On the road from Megara there is a spring on the right, and a little farther on a rock. It is the Vergutiani spring of today.
On the road from Megara there is a spring on the right, and a little farther on a rock. It is called the bed of Actaeon, for it is said that he slept thereon when weary with hunting, and that into this spring he looked while Artemis was bathing in it. Stesichorus of Himera says that the goddess cast a deer-skin round Actaeon to make sure that his hounds would kill him, so as to prevent his taking Semele to wife.
River of Boeotia.
On the battlefield of Plataea.
A place near Plataea.
near the battlefield of Plataea
STYRA (Ancient city) EVIA
Aegilia or Aegileia (Aighileia, a small island off the western coast of Euboea, and near the town of Styra, to which it belonged. Here the Persians left the captive Eretrians, before they crossed over to Marathon, B.C. 490. (Herod. vi. 101, 107.)
THERMOPYLES (Historic place) LAMIA
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THESPIES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In the territory of the Thespians is a place called Donacon (Reed-bed). Here is the spring of Narcissus. They say that Narcissus looked into this water, and not understanding that he saw his own reflection, unconsciously fell in love with himself, and died of love at the spring. But it is utter stupidity to imagine that a man old enough to fall in love was incapable of distinguishing a man from a man's reflection.
THIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Acropolis of Thebes, founded by Cadmus, ravaged by a vixen, marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia in the, seized by Lacedaemonians.
Ismenus (Ismenos), a son of Asopus and Metope, from whom the Boeotian river Ladon was believed to have derived its name of Ismenus. (Apollod. iii. 12. Β§ 6.) The little brooks Dirce and Strophie, in the neighbourhood of Thebes, are therefore called daughters of Ismenus. (Callim. Hymn. in Del. 77; comp. Euirip. Bacch. 519; Diod. iv. 72.) According to other traditions, Ismenus was a son of Amphion and Niobe, who when struck by the arrow of Apollo leaped into a river near Thebes, which was called Ismenus, after him. (Apollod. iii. 5. Β 6; Plut. de Fluv. 2.)
Mountain of Thessaly.
River at Thebes
VIOTIA (Ancient area) GREECE
Copais (Kopais limne). Alake in Boeotia, formed chiefly by the river Cephissus, whose waters were connected with the Euboean Sea by several subterranean channels, called by the modern Greeks katavothra, which were not, however, sufficient to carry off the waters, especially in the spring when the Copaic plain was flooded by the rains. In the time of Alexander the Great an enormous tunnel was cut through the rock for the discharge of the water. (See Emissarium.) This proved effective until it fell into ruins, when the district again became unwholesome and marshy. In 1886, however, it was once more properly drained by a French company. The modern name of the lake is Topolias; its Homeric name, Cephisis (Limne Kephisis, Il.v. 709). Its eels were much prized in antiquity.
Sidae (Sidai), a place in Boeotia, celebrated for its pomegranates.
Hence the Boeotians called this fruit side, though the more usual name was rhoia.
As the Athenians are said to have contended with the Boeotians for the possession
of the place, it must have been upon the borders of Attica, but its exact site
is unknown. (Athen. xiv. pp. 650, 651.)
Ismenius. A son of Apollo and Melia, who is said to have given his name to the Boeotian river which was before called Ladon or Cadmus. (Hesych. s. v.; Paus. ix. 10. Β 5.)
EVIA (Island) GREECE
Cenaeum (Kenaion: Lithadha), a promontory of Euboea, forming the north-western
extremity of the island, and opposite the Malic gulf. On this promontory was a
temple of Zeus, who was hence called Cenaeus. (Strab. x. pp. 444, 446; Thuc. iii.
93; Ptol. iii. 15. § 23; Plin. iv. 12. s. 21; Liv. xxxvi. 20; Hom. Hymn. in Apoll.
219; Soph. Trach. 238, 753; Ov. Met. ix. 136.)
Chalcidian, channel that separates Euboea from Boeotia, part played by it in naval operations before Salamis.
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Hippocrene, (Hippokrene or Hippoukrene, "the fountain of the
steed"). The fount of the Muses, which was struck out of Mount Helicon, in
Boeotia, by the hoof of the winged steed Pegasus.
Aganippe. A spring on Mount Helicon, near Thespiae in Boeotia, sacred to the Muses, who were called from it Aganippides. Its water was believed to impart poetic inspiration.
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
Sping within the archaeological site, to the west of the medieval church of Panagia. Acidalia is a name the Boeotians called Aphrodite.
THIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Wife of Lycus, illtreats Antiope, honours Dionysus, is tied by Antiope's sons to a bull, her body thrown into a spring, which is called Dirce after her.
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