Listed 20 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "CHALKIDA Province EVIA" .
AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
If ever you turn your misguided heart to trading and wish to escape from debt and joyless hunger, I will show you the measures of the loud roaring sea, though I have no skill in sea faring nor in ships;for never yet have I sailed by ship over the wide sea, but only to Euboea from Aulis where the Achaeans once stayed through much storm when they had gathered a great host from divine Hellas for Troy, the land of fair women.
ANTHIDON (Ancient city) CHALKIDA
Within Boeotia to the left of the Euripus is Mount Messapius, at the foot of which on the coast is the Boeotian city of Anthedon.
AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
Plane-tree at Aulis mentioned by Homer in the Iliad.(Paus. 9.19.7).
CHALKIS (Ancient city) EVIA
On the Euripus, in Euboea, at war with Athens, station of the Greek fleet, Chalcidians in the fleet, at Plataea, called one of three keys of Greece, hymn composed for people of Ch., poetical victory of Hesiod at Ch.
ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
In Euboea, Pisistratus in exile there, native place of Gephyraei, objective of Mardonius' campaign under Darius, of Datis, subdued by Persians, Eretrian captives in Persia, contingent in Greek fleet, at Plataea, enslaved by Medes, sacked by Romans, Eretrians dedicate bronze ox at Olympia, invade land of Tanagra.
MYKALISSOS (Ancient city) EVIA
City of Boeotia, origin of name, massacre at.
YRIA (Ancient city) AVLIDA
Lycus and Nycteus settle at.
AMARYNTHOS (Ancient city) CHALKIDA
The village Amarynthus, which is seven stadia distant from the walls, belongs to this city (Eretria). (Strabo 10.1.10)
AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
Then one comes to a large harbor, which is called Bathys Limen; then to Aulis, a rocky place and a village of the Tanagraeans. Its harbor is large enough for only fifty boats; and therefore it is reasonable to suppose that the naval station of the Greeks was in the large harbor.
CHALKIS (Ancient city) EVIA
There is current, also, an oracle which was given out to the people of Aegium, Thessalian horse, Lacedemonian woman, and men who drink the water of sacred Arethusa, meaning that the Chalcidians are best of all, for Arethusa is in their territory.
EGES (Ancient city) EVIA
Of the same name as this Aegae is the Aegae in Euboea;.. Now the poet .. speaks of both places called Aegae: the Achaean Aegae, when he says, "yet they bring up gifts for thee into both Helice and Aegae"
but when he says, "Aegae, where is his famous palace in the deeps of the mere," "where Poseidon halted his horses," it is better to take him as meaning the Aegae in Euboea, from which it is probable that also the Aegean Sea got its name; and here too the poet has placed the activities of Poseidon in connection with the Trojan War.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited April 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
As for the power the Eretrians once had, this is evidenced by the pillar which they once set up in the temple of Artemis Amarynthia. It was inscribed thereon that they made their festal procession with three thousand heavy-armed soldiers, six hundred horsemen, and sixty chariots. And they ruled over the peoples of Andros, Teos, Ceos, and other islands.
KIRYNTHOS (Ancient city) CHALKIDA
Now these places are in the neighborhood of Histiaea; and so is 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.
LILANTIO PLAIN (Plain) EVIA
Above the city of the Chalcidians is situated the Lelantine Plain. In this plain are fountains of hot water suited to the cure of diseases, which were used by Cornelius Sulla, the Roman commander. And in this plain was also a remarkable mine which contained copper and iron together, a thing which is not reported as occurring elsewhere; now, however, both metals have given out, as in the case of the silver mines at Athens.
MYKALISSOS (Ancient city) EVIA
Also Mycalessus, a village, is in the Tanagraean territory. It is situated on the road that leads from Thebes to Chalcis; and in the Boeotian dialect it is called Mycalettus.
VATHY (Small town) AVLIDA
Then one comes to a large harbor, which is called Bathys Limen; then to Aulis, a rocky place and a village of the Tanagraeans. Its harbor is large enough for only fifty boats; and therefore it is reasonable to suppose that the naval station of the Greeks was in the large harbor.
YRIA (Ancient city) AVLIDA
And Hyria, also, belongs to the Tanagraean territory now, though in earlier times it belonged to the Theban territory. Hyria is the scene of the myth of Hyrieus, and of the birth of Orion, of which Pindar speaks in his dithyrambs; it is situated near Aulis. Some say that Hysiae is called Hyria, belonging to the Parasopian country below Cithaeron, near Erythrae, in the interior, and that it is a colony of the Hyrieans and was founded by Nycteus, the father of Antiope.
AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
When the ambassadors arrived there, Pelopidas enjoyed a great advantage with the Persian. For he was able to say that his people were the only ones among the Greeks who had fought on the side of the King at Plataea, that they had never afterwards undertaken a campaign against the King, and that the Lacedaemonians had made war upon them for precisely the reason that they had declined to go with Agesilaus against him and had refused to permit Agesilaus to sacrifice to Artemis at Aulis, the very spot where Agamemnon, at the time when he was sailing forth to Asia, had sacrificed before he captured Troy.
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