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Ιερό Πτώου Απόλλωνος

ΑΚΡΑΙΦΝΙΟΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΘΗΒΕΣ
Βρισκόταν σε απόσταση 15 σταδίων από την πόλη (Παυσ. 9,23,5).

Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Boeotia
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Μαντείο Ακραιφνίου

Πριν την εκστρατεία των Μακεδόνων υπό τον Μ. Αλέξανδρο υπήρχε μαντείο στο Ακραίφνιο, από το οποίο ο Μαρδόνιος είχε ζητήσει και λάβει χρησμό στην καρική γλώσσα (Παυσ. 9,23,20).

Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Boeotia
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=...

Oracle of Mount Ptoon, near Acraephia, in the territory of Thebes. Mythology affirmed that Tenerus, son of Apollo and Melia, was the first prophet here (Strabo, ix. p. 412). More interesting is it to know, on the same authority, that Pindar sang of this oracle. When Mys the Carian was sent by Mardonius to consult it, at the time of the Persian wars, the prophet answered him in the Carian language, so that the Thebans who accompanied him could not write down the reply, and Mys was obliged to do this himself (Herod. viii. 135). This oracle also was consulted by the Thebans before Leuctra (Pausan. iv. 32, § 5), but was destroyed in the general ruin of the Theban territory by Alexander (Pausan. ix. 23, § 3). In the time of Plutarch the whole district was desolate (Plut. Defect. Orac. 8).

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin)
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Ναός Διονύσου

The town lies on Mount Ptous, and there are here a temple and image of Dionysus that are worth seeing.

Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Boeotia
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