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PLATEES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
That of Athens comprised the Chians, Lesbians, Plateans, the Messenians in Naupactus, most of the Acarnanians, the Corcyraeans, Zacynthians, and some tributary cities in the following countries, viz., Caria upon the sea with her Dorian neighbors, Ionia, the Hellespont, the Thracian towns, the islands lying between Peloponnese and Crete towards the east, and all the Cyclades except Melos and Thera.
TANAGRA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
These stated themselves that they came from Eretria originally, but Herodotus thinks that they were Phoenicians. They lived at Tanagra in Boeotia, which had been formerly called Gephura (Etym. M.). When the rest of the Cadmeans were driven out by the Argives and went to the Encheleis, the Gephyraeans remained in Boeotia at first; but later, being expelled by the other inhabitants of that country, they turned to Athens. The Athenians made them citizens on special terms, epi rhetois: which were probably to maintain in repair the bridges over the river Cephisus (Lyd. de Mens. viii. p. 45; Etym. M. s. v. Gephureis), for that art was considered recondite in early times (cf. Fr. Lenormant, Voie Sacree Eleusinienne, p. 247); and with injunctions to keep aloof from the other citizens in many respects. They had temples and rites special to themselves (though these cannot have long remained secret: cf. Schol. on Aristoph. Ach. 708), and among these the temple and rites of Demeter Achaea (Herod. l. c.).
This extract is from: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
SKOLOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Scolus is a village in the Parasopian country at the foot of Mount Cithaeron, a place that is rugged and hardly habitable; whence the proverb, "neither go to Scolus thyself nor follow another thither."
THESPIES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Follow Iolaus to Sardinia, march to Thermopylae, dismissed by Epaminondas before battle of Leuctra, take refuge in Ceressus, but are captured by Epaminondas, honour Love above all gods, hold festival and games of Muses and Love on Mount Helicon, dedicate statue of Plistaenus at Olympia. (Paus. 7.2.2)
THIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Expose one of their sons every month to the (Teumessian) vixen, at war with Minyans of Orchomenus, the Sphinx propounds a riddle to the, they seek counsel of Tiresias, defeated by the Argives, abandon the city, found Hestiaea, their battle with Euboeans, under Nycteus defeated by Epopeus, king of Aegialus, defeated by Argives at Glisas, join Ionian migration to Asia, four hundred Thebans march to Thermopylae, defeat Athenians at Delium, capture and destroy Plataea, defeated by Agesilaus at Coronea, defeat Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, build treasury at Delphi out of spoils of battle of Leuctra, found Messene, restore Mantinea, raised to highest place by Epaminondas, march against Sicyon, expel Orchomenians, defeat Megarians, expelled by Alexander, restored by Cassander.
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