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ERYTHRES (Ancient city) ATTIKI
Eruthrai: Eth. Eruthraios. An ancient town in Boeotia, mentioned by
Homer, and said to have been the mother-city of Erythrae in Boeotia. (Hom. Il.
ii. 499; Strab. ix.). It lay a little south of the Asopus, at the foot of Mount
Cithaeron. The camp of Mardonius extended along the Asopus from Erythrae and past
Hysiae to the territory of Plataea. (Herod. ix. 15, 25.) Erythrae is frequently
mentioned by other authorities in connection with Hysiae. It was in ruins in the
time of Pausanias. Leake places it to the eastward of Katzula at the foot of the
rocks, where are some foundations of Hellenic walls, together with a church containing
a Doric column and its capital.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
YSSIES (Ancient city) ATTIKI
Husiai, Husia, Eth. Husieus. A town of Boeotia, in the Parasopia,
at the northern foot of Mt. Cithaeron, and on the high road from Thebes to Athens.
It was said to have been a colony from Hyria, and to have been founded by Nyeteus,
father of Antiope. (Strab. ix. p. 404.) Herodotus says that both Hysiae and Oenoe
were Attic demi when they were taken by the Boeotians in B.C. 507. (Herod. v.
74.) It probably, however, belonged to Plataea. (Comp. Herod. vi. 108.) Oenoe
was recovered by the Athenians; but, as Mt. Cithaeron was the natural boundary
between Attica and Boeotia, Hysiae continued to be a Boeotian town. Hysiae is
mentioned in the operations which preceded the battle of Plataea. (Herod. ix.
15, 25.) Hysiae was in ruins in the time of Pausanias, who noticed there an unfinished
temple of Apollo and a sacred well. (Paus. ix. 2. § 1.) Leake observed a little
beyond the great road at the foot of the mountain, a great quantity of loose stones
in the fields, together with some traces of ancient walls, and the mouth of a
well or cistern, of Hellenic construction, now filled up. This we may conclude
to be the site of Hysiae. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 327.) Hysiae is
mentioned also in the following passages: Eurip. Bacch. 751; Thuc. iii. 24, v.
83.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
DRYOS KEFALES (Ancient location) ATTIKI
(Druos Kephalai). A narrow pass of Mount Cithaeron in Boeotia, between Athens and Plataeae.
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) ATTIKI
A town in Boeotia, near Plataea, named after Erythras, its ruins.
named after Erythras: Paus. 6.21.11
its ruins
YSSIES (Ancient city) ATTIKI
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 (Strab. 9,2,12).
In Boeotia, its ruins.
A village on the slopes of Cithaeron, in Attica; taken by Boeotians, part played by it on the battlefield of Plataea.
ELEFTHERES (Ancient city) ERYTHRES
Some scholars think that this city in Attica corresponds to modern
Gyphtokastro (Paus. 1.38.8-9; 2.6.3; 9.2.1-3). Others identify Gyphtokastro with
the site of ancient Panakton (Thuc. 2.18.1-2; 5.3.5). It has also been suggested
that Eleutherai was located at Myupolis, E of Gyphtokastro, a location proposed
by others as the site of Oinoe. The first of the theories seems perhaps the most
acceptable; in any case the problematic fortified castle of Gyphtokastro was a
site of primary strategic importance on the road that connected Athens, Eleusis,
and Thebes.
The well-preserved circuit wall delimits the summit of a hill, describing
an ellipse ca. 330 m long and half as wide, with an average thickness of 2.6 m.
There are four gates. The towers, of which eight remain at the N, were two stories
high and had doors, windows, and stairways. Three diverse phases in the technique
of the wall have been recognized: polygonal with roughhewn face in the remains
of an isolated construction inside the N flank of the wall; trapezoidal isodomic
with fluted face; and isodomic with smooth face having oblique junctures of the
blocks. The polygonal technique would date from ca. the middle of the 5th c. B.C.
(it has been called Boiotian), and would therefore precede the construction of
the whole circuit, which would then date from the last 30 years of the 4th c.
B.C.
N. Bonacasa, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
YSSIES (Ancient city) ATTIKI
Thought to be situated on the road from Eleusis to Thebes, on the
N slope of Mt. Kithairon near Kriekouki on the Pantanassa peak. Noted as early
as Kleomenes' Invasion in 507 B.C., it played an important role in the Plataians'
invasion (Hdt. 5.74, 6.108). It was in ruins in Pausanias' day (9.1.6; 2.1; cf.
Strab. 9.2.12).
Y. Bequignon, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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