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GREA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Name of woman and of Tanagra.The people of Tanagra say that their founder was Poemander, the son of Chaeresilaus, the son of Iasius, the son of Eleuther, who, they say, was the son of Apollo by Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon. It is said that Poemander married Tanagra, a daughter of Aeolus. But in a poem of Corinna she is said to be a daughter of Asopus. There is a story that, as she reached extreme old age, her neighbors ceased to call her by this name, and gave the name of Graea (old woman), first to the woman herself, and in course of time to the city. The name, they say, persisted so long that even Homer says in the Catalogue. Later, however, it recovered its old name.Later, however, it recovered its old name.
TANAGRA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
The people of Tanagra say that their founder was Poemander, the son of Chaeresilaus, the son of Iasius, the son of Eleuther, who, they say, was the son of Apollo by Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon. It is said that Poemander married Tanagra, a daughter of Aeolus. But in a poem of Corinna she is said to be a daughter of Asopus. There is a story that, as she reached extreme old age, her neighbors ceased to call her by this name, and gave the name of Graea (old woman), first to the woman herself, and in course of time to the city. The name, they say, persisted so long that even Homer says in the Catalogue. Later, however, it recovered its old name.Later, however, it recovered its old name.
ARMA (Ancient city) TANAGRA
City of Boeotia.
ELEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
A town in Boeotia, territory of E. marches with that of Tanagra
GREA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Name of woman and of Tanagra.
TANAGRA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, its lands occupied by Cadmus, followers, borders on Oropus, near the river Thermodon, people of Tanagra join Megarians in colonising Heraclea on the Euxine, they regulate worship of gods better than any other people, Mardonius there, Athenians and Argives defeated by Lacedaemonians at, cocks of Tanagra, two breeds.
ARMA (Ancient city) TANAGRA
At his time there was a desert at the place where a sanctuary of Amphiaraos, from the famous legend of the battle of the chariot, used to be (9,2,11).
ELEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Helos and Heleon and Heilesium were so called because they were situated near marshes, but now the case is different with these places, since they have been rebuilt elsewhere, or else the lake has been greatly reduced because of outflows that later took place; for this is possible.
ELOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Helos and Heleon and Heilesium were so called because they were situated near marshes, but now the case is different with these places, since they have been rebuilt elsewhere, or else the lake has been greatly reduced because of outflows that later took place; for this is possible
GREA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
He places it near Oropos and some say that it is Tanagra (9,2,10).
ILESSION (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Helos and Heleon and Heilesium were so called because they were situated near marshes, but now the case is different with these places, since they have been rebuilt elsewhere, or else the lake has been greatly reduced because of outflows that later took place; for this is possible.
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