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GLISSAS (Ancient city) THIVES
Glissas: Eth. Glisantios. An ancient town of Boeotia, mentioned by
Homer in the same line with Plataea (Il. ii. 504), and celebrated in mythology
as the place where the Epigoni fought against the Thebans, and where the Argive
chiefs were buried who fell in the battle. (Paus. i. 44. § 4, ix. 5. § 13, ix.
8. § 6, ix. 9. § 4, ix. 19. § 2.) Pausanias, in his description of the road from
Thebes to Chalcis, says that Glisas was situated beyond Teumessus, at the distance
of seven stadia from the latter place; that above Glisas rose Mount Hypatus, from
which flowed the torrent Thermodon. (Paus. ix. 19. §2.) Strabo (ix.) places it
on Mt. Hypatus, and Herodotus (ix. 43) describes the Thermodon as flowing between
Glisas and Tanagra. Leake identifies Glisas with the ruins on the bank of the
torrent of Platanaki, above which rises. the mountain of Siamata, the ancient
Hypatus.
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
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