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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.)
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.)
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.
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.
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.)
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.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 25/7/2001: 99 for Euripus, 32 for Euripos.
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