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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).
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.
KORONIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Mountain of Boeotia. The Libethrian nymphs and the spring Libethrias there.
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.)
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.
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