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ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
They say that the place now occupied by Lake Copais was formerly dry ground, and that it was tilled in all kinds of ways when it was subject to the Orchomenians, who lived near it. And this fact, accordingly, is adduced as an evidence of their wealth (Strab. 9.2.40).
AKREFNION (Ancient city) THIVES
ALALKOMENES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Triton. A river, a small torrent. They call it Triton, because the story is that beside a river Triton Athena was reared.(Paus. 9.33.7)
DAVLIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In the territory of Daulis is a place called Tronis. Here has been built a shrine of the Founder hero. This founder is said by some to have been Xanthippus, a distinguished soldier; others say that he was Phocus, son of Ornytion, son of Sisyphus. At any rate, he is worshipped every day, and the Phocians bring victims and pour the blood into the grave through a hole, but the flesh they are wont to consume on the spot.
The Cleft Road (on which Oedipus slew his father) and the rash deed committed on it by Oedipus were the beginning of his troubles, and the tombs of Laius and the servant who followed him are still just as they were in the very middle of the place where the three roads meet, and over them have been piled unhewn stones. According to the story, it was Damasistratus, king of Plataea, who found the bodies lying and buried them.
KITHERON (Mountain) VIOTIA
(Paus. 9,3,9). Plutarchus mentions (Arist. 11) that in the old times there was an oracle in the cave and that whoever went there got so excited that the others called them "nymph-stricken".
KORONIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Mountain of Boeotia. The Libethrian nymphs and the spring Libethrias there.
KORSIES (Ancient city) THISVI
River of Boeotia.
LEFYSTION (Mountain) LEVADIA
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LEVADIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
They say that here Hercyna, when playing with the Maid, the daughter of Demeter, held a goose which against her will she let loose. The bird flew into a hollow cave and hid under a stone; the Maid entered and took the bird as it lay under the stone. The water flowed, they say, from the place where the Maid took up the stone, and hence the river received the name of Hercyna. On the bank of the river there is a temple of Hercyna, in which is a maiden holding a goose in her arms. In the cave are the sources of the river and images standing, and serpents are coiled around their scepters. One might conjecture the images to be of Asclepius and Health, but they might be Trophonius and Hercyna, because they think that serpents are just as much sacred to Trophonius as to Asclepius.
MEDEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
The Boeotian Medeon was at the base of this mountain (Stravo 9,2,26).
PARAPOTAMII (Ancient city) CHERONIA
Assus (Assos: Kineta), a river of Boeotia, flowing into the Cephissus on its left bank, near the city of the Parapotamii and Mount Edylium. (Plut. Sull. 16; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 195.)
PLATEES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
This road leads to Plataea from Eleutherae. On the road from Megara there is a spring on the right, and a little farther on a rock. It is the Vergutiani spring of today.
On the road from Megara there is a spring on the right, and a little farther on a rock. It is called the bed of Actaeon, for it is said that he slept thereon when weary with hunting, and that into this spring he looked while Artemis was bathing in it. Stesichorus of Himera says that the goddess cast a deer-skin round Actaeon to make sure that his hounds would kill him, so as to prevent his taking Semele to wife.
River of Boeotia.
On the battlefield of Plataea.
A place near Plataea.
near the battlefield of Plataea
THESPIES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In the territory of the Thespians is a place called Donacon (Reed-bed). Here is the spring of Narcissus. They say that Narcissus looked into this water, and not understanding that he saw his own reflection, unconsciously fell in love with himself, and died of love at the spring. But it is utter stupidity to imagine that a man old enough to fall in love was incapable of distinguishing a man from a man's reflection.
THIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Acropolis of Thebes, founded by Cadmus, ravaged by a vixen, marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia in the, seized by Lacedaemonians.
Ismenus (Ismenos), a son of Asopus and Metope, from whom the Boeotian river Ladon was believed to have derived its name of Ismenus. (Apollod. iii. 12. Β§ 6.) The little brooks Dirce and Strophie, in the neighbourhood of Thebes, are therefore called daughters of Ismenus. (Callim. Hymn. in Del. 77; comp. Euirip. Bacch. 519; Diod. iv. 72.) According to other traditions, Ismenus was a son of Amphion and Niobe, who when struck by the arrow of Apollo leaped into a river near Thebes, which was called Ismenus, after him. (Apollod. iii. 5. Β 6; Plut. de Fluv. 2.)
Mountain of Thessaly.
River at Thebes
VIOTIA (Ancient area) GREECE
Copais (Kopais limne). Alake in Boeotia, formed chiefly by the river Cephissus, whose waters were connected with the Euboean Sea by several subterranean channels, called by the modern Greeks katavothra, which were not, however, sufficient to carry off the waters, especially in the spring when the Copaic plain was flooded by the rains. In the time of Alexander the Great an enormous tunnel was cut through the rock for the discharge of the water. (See Emissarium.) This proved effective until it fell into ruins, when the district again became unwholesome and marshy. In 1886, however, it was once more properly drained by a French company. The modern name of the lake is Topolias; its Homeric name, Cephisis (Limne Kephisis, Il.v. 709). Its eels were much prized in antiquity.
Sidae (Sidai), a place in Boeotia, celebrated for its pomegranates.
Hence the Boeotians called this fruit side, though the more usual name was rhoia.
As the Athenians are said to have contended with the Boeotians for the possession
of the place, it must have been upon the borders of Attica, but its exact site
is unknown. (Athen. xiv. pp. 650, 651.)
Ismenius. A son of Apollo and Melia, who is said to have given his name to the Boeotian river which was before called Ladon or Cadmus. (Hesych. s. v.; Paus. ix. 10. Β 5.)
Hippocrene, (Hippokrene or Hippoukrene, "the fountain of the
steed"). The fount of the Muses, which was struck out of Mount Helicon, in
Boeotia, by the hoof of the winged steed Pegasus.
Aganippe. A spring on Mount Helicon, near Thespiae in Boeotia, sacred to the Muses, who were called from it Aganippides. Its water was believed to impart poetic inspiration.
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
Sping within the archaeological site, to the west of the medieval church of Panagia. Acidalia is a name the Boeotians called Aphrodite.
THIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Wife of Lycus, illtreats Antiope, honours Dionysus, is tied by Antiope's sons to a bull, her body thrown into a spring, which is called Dirce after her.
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