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ETEONOS (Ancient city) THIVES
Eteonos: Eth. Eteonios. A town of Boeotia, mentioned by Homer, who gives it the
epithet of poluknemos, lay to the right of the Asopus. Strabo says that it was
afterwards called Scarphe. It probably lay between Scolus and the frontier of
the territory of Tanagra.
PANAKTON (Ancient city) THIVES
The position of these places cannot be fixed with certainty; but we
think Leake's opinion is, upon the whole, the most probable. Muller, Kiepert,
and others suppose the ruins of Ghyfto - kastro to be those of Panactum described
by Thucydides as a fortress of the Athenians, on the confines of Boeotia, which
was betrayed to the Boeotians in B.C. 420, and subsequently destroyed by them.
(Thuc. v. 3, 42; comp. Paus. i. 25. § 6; Dem. de Fals. Leg. p. 446; Steph. B.)
Leake places Panactum on the Boeotian side of the pass of Phyle; but Ross thinks
that he has discovered its ruins in the plain of Eleutherae, west of Skurta. Ross,
moreover, thinks that Eleutherae stood to the east of Ghyfto - kastro, near the
convent of St. Meletius, where are ruins of an ancient place; while other modern
writers suppose Eleutherae to have stood more to the west, near the modern village
of Kundara.
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
SKOLOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Skolos. A town of Chalcidice near Olynthus, mentioned together with Spartolus,
in the treaty between Athens and Sparta in the tenth year of the Peloponnesian
War.
PANAKTON (Ancient city) THIVES
(Panakton). A town on the frontiers of Attica and Boeotia, originally belonged to Boeotia, and after being a frequent object of contention between the Athenians and Boeotians, at length became permanently annexed to Attica.
Many claim that the Kaza Fort of today is the Panactum Fort of the ancient times and that it has always been a fort and not a town, but that is debatable.
PANAKTON (Ancient city) THIVES
A fort on the N flank of Mt. Kithairon on the frontier between Attica
and Boiotia. It is usually placed near Kavasala, which is easily recognized by
its mediaeval tower. The fort measures ca. 300 m around. Inside are the remains
of two towers joined by a wall (6th c. ?). The fort dominates the Skourta plain,
through which runs the road from Athens to Thebes by way of Phyle. Some scholars
identify as Panakton the fortress popularly known as Bleutheres (Gyphtokastro),
which should rather be placed at Kaza.
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 4 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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