Listed 9 sub titles with search on: Mythology for wider area of: "LEVADIA Municipality VIOTIA" .
VOULIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Bulon (Boulon), the founder of the town of Bulis in Phocis. (Paus. x. 37.2; Steph.
Byz. s. v. Bonlis.)
LEFYSTION (Mountain) LEVADIA
Charops, bright-eyed or joyful-looking, a surname of Heracles, under which he had a statue near mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from the lower world. (Paus. ix. 34. Β§ 4.) There are also two mythical beings of this name. (Hom. Od. xi. 427; Hom. Hymn. in Merc. 194; Hygin. Fab. 181.)
Laphystius (Laphustios). A surname of Zeus, which was derived either from Mount Laphystius in Boeotia, or from the verb laphussein, to flee, so that it would be synonymous with phuxios: a third opinion is, that it signified " the voracious," in reference to the human sacrifices which were offered to him in early time. (Paus. i. 24.2, ix. 34.4.)
Laphystius. A surname of Dionysus, from the Boeotian mountain Laphystius, whence the female Bacchantes were called, in the Macedonian dialect, Laphystiae. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1236)
LEVADIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Hercyna, (Herkuna), a divinity of the lower world, respecting whom the following
tradition is related. She was a daughter of Trophonius, and once while she was
playing with Cora, the daughter of Demeter in the grove of Trophonius, near Lebadeia
in Boeotia, she let a goose fly away, which she carried in her hand. The bird
flew into a cave, and concealed itself under a block of stone. When Cora pulled
the bird forth from its hiding place, a well gushed forth from under the stone,
which was called Hercvna. On the bank of the rivulet a temple was afterwards erected,
with the statue of a maiden carrying a goose in her hand; and in the cave there
were two statues with staves surrounded by serpents, Trophonius and Hercyna, resembling
the statues of Asclepius and Hygeia. (Paus. ix. 39.2.) Hercyna founded the worship
of Demeter at Lebadeia, who hence received the surname of Hercyna. (Lycoph. 153,
with the note of Tzetzes.) Hercyna was worshipped at Lebadeia in common with Zeus,
and sacrifices were offered to both in common. (Liv. xlv. 27.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Nymph, mother of Aspledon by Poseidon.
Lebadus;Gives his name to Lebadea. Laonice; Wife of Lebadus.
LEFYSTION (Mountain) LEVADIA
They say that when Athamas was about to sacrifice here Phrixus and Helle, a ram with his fleece of gold was sent by Zeus to the children (at the mount Laphystius), and that on the back of this ram they made good their escape.
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