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DRYMEA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 [On the Embassy]
ECHINOUS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
ELATIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
He (Philip) lost no time, collected his army, pretended to march to Cirrha, and then bade the Cirrhaeans and the Locrians alike good-bye and good luck, and seized Elatea.
KORSIA (Ancient city) ATALANTI
In Boeotia the Phocians, who held three strongly fortified cities, Orchomenus, Coroneia, and Corsiae, conducted from these their campaign against the Boeotians
AMFIKLIA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
The road from Lilaea to Amphicleia is sixty stades. The name of this Amphicleia has been corrupted by the native inhabitants. Herodotus, following the most ancient account, called it Amphicaea; but the Amphictyons, when they published their decree for the destruction of the cities in Phocis, gave it the name of Amphicleia. The natives tell about it the following story. A certain chief, suspecting that enemies were plotting against his baby son, put the child in a vessel, and hid him in that part of the land where he knew there would be most security. Now a wolf attacked the child, but a serpent coiled itself round the vessel, and kept up a strict watch. When the child's father came, supposing that the serpent had purposed to attack the child, he threw his javelin, which killed the serpent and his son as well. But being informed by the shepherds that he had killed the benefactor and protector of his child, he made one common pyre for both the serpent and his son. Now they say that even to-day the place resembles a burning pyre, maintaining that after this serpent the city was called Ophiteia. They celebrate orgies, well worth seeing, in honor of Dionysus, but there is no entrance to the shrine, nor have they any image that can be seen. The people of Amphicleia say that this god is their prophet and their helper in disease. The diseases of the Amphicleans themselves and of their neighbors are cured by means of dreams. The oracles of the god are given by the priest, who utters them when under the divine inspiration. Fifteen stades away from Amphicleia is Tithronium
This extract is from: Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., Harvard University Press. Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL bellow, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks
AVES (Ancient city) ATALANTI
In the tenth year(348 BC) after the seizure of the sanctuary, Philip put an end to the war, which was called both the Phocian War and the Sacred War, in the year when Theophilus was archon at Athens, which was the first of the hundred and eighth Olympiad at which Polycles of Cyrene was victorious in the foot-race. The cities of Phocis were captured and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in days of old, especially because of the poetry of Homer.
The army of Xerxes, burning down certain of these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to which I have referred all the cities enumerated were razed to the ground and their people scattered in villages. The one exception to this treatment was Abae, whose citizens were free from impiety, and had had no share in the seizure of the sanctuary or in the war (Paus. 10.3 .1-2).
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
LARYMNA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
On crossing Mount Ptous you come to Larymna, a Boeotian city on the coast, said to have been named after Larymna, the daughter of Cynus.
AENIANIA (Ancient area) FTHIOTIDA
ALES (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Town of Boeotia (Paus. 9,24,5).
ALPINI (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
A village behind the Greek position at Thermopylae.
AMFIKLIA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
City of Phocis, burnt by Xerxes, destroyed after Sacred War.
ANTHILI (Ancient city) LAMIA
A village near the pass of Thermopylae.
ASSOPOS (Tributary) FTHIOTIDA
River in Trachis near Thermopylae.
ATALANTI (Island) FTHIOTIDA
Island off Locris.
AVES (Ancient city) ATALANTI
City of Phocis
CHIN (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Village on Mt. Oeta.
DRYMEA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
A town in Phocis (Hrd. 8,33).
City of Phocis, burnt by Xerxes, destroyed after Sacred War.
ELATIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
FTHIOTIS (Ancient country) FTHIOTIDA
In northern Greece, earliest home of the Dorians, Phthiotians belong to Amphictyonic League, its submission to Xerxes.
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) LAMIA
Under Mt. Oeta, besieged by Achaeans, compelled by Aetolians to join their confederacy, repulses Gauls.
KYNOS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Port of Opus.(Paus. 10,1,2).
LAMIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Siege of, battle of, Lamian war, Lamian Gulf.
LARYMNA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
City of Boeotia, anciently belonged to Opus.
LOKRIS (Ancient country) FTHIOTIDA
Ravaged by Phocians, mainland of Locris separated by sea from Euboea, the Argonauts sail past, Opus in, Naupactus in, visited by a plague.
OITI (Mountain) FTHIOTIDA
The mountain range S. of Thermopylae, Mount, Herakles burnt on, Dorians come from, Heraclea at foot of, over against Lamia, salt marsh at foot of, two paths over, Medes pass over, Gauls pass over, village on.
OPOUS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
City of Hypocnemidian Locrians, in Locris, Abderus a native of, Patroclus at.
SKARFIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
In Locris, Achaeans defeated by Romans at.
SPERCHIOS (River) FTHIOTIDA
River, in Malis, near Thermopylae, hair of Achilles vowed to, Gauls pass the.
THERMOPYLES (Historic place) LAMIA
Amphictyons meet at, its blue water, number of Greeks who mustered at Thermopylae to meet Xerxes, description of the pass, Lacedaemonians under Leonidas crushed by Persians under Xerxes at, Lacedaemonian dead at Thermopylae allowed burial by Xerxes, visit of Persian forces to the field of Thermopylae, names of men who fought Persians at Thermopylae inscribed at Sparta, eighty Mycenaeans fight on Lacedaemonian side at, number of Greeks who marched to Thermopylae to meet Gauls, Gauls invade Greece by, Antiochus defeated by Romans at.
THRONION (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Town of Locris, on river Boagrius.
TITHOREA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
City of Phocis, olive oil of, people of Tithorea steal earth from tomb of Amphion and Zethus at Thebes.
TRACHIS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
City at foot of Mt. Oeta, Herakles at, Lichas sent by Herakles to, Dejanira dies near, the sons of Herakles at, the coastal region closed to the E. by Thermopylae, several unimportant reff. to it, its town of the same name, path over Mt. Oeta from, man of Trachis betrays path over Mt. Oeta to Xerxes, Xerxes' passage from Trachis into Doris, its ruins.
YAMPOLIS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
AENIANIA (Ancient area) FTHIOTIDA
Above the Acarnanians, in the interior and the parts towards the north, are situated the Amphilochians, and above these the Dolopians and Pindus, and above the Aetolians are the Perrhaebians and Athamanians and a part of the Aenianians who hold Oeta.
ALES (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Carystus is at the foot of the mountain Oche; and near it are Styra and Marmarium, in which latter are the quarry of the Carystian columns and a temple of Apollo Marmarinus; and from here there is a passage across the strait to Halae Araphenides.
ALOPI (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Next after Cynus, one comes to Alope and to Daphnus, which latter, as I said, is razed to the ground; and here there is a harbor which is about ninety stadia distant from Cynus, and one hundred and twenty stadia from Elateia, for one going on foot into the interior (Strab. 9.4.3).
ALOPI (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Strabo mentions Alope under the name of Halius as well (Strab. 9,5,8).
AVGIES (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Neither does (exist) Augeiae, whose territory is held by the Scarphians.
DAFNOUS (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
After Boeotia and Orchomenus one comes to Phocis; it stretches towards the north alongside Boeotia, nearly from sea to sea; it did so in early times, at least, for in those times Daphnus belonged to Phocis, splitting Locris into two parts and being placed by geographers midway between the Opuntian Gulf and the coast of the Epicnemidians (Strab. 9,3,1).
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Daphnus is now razed to the ground. It was at one time a city of Phocis, bordering on the Euboean Sea; it divided the Epicnemidian Locrians into two parts, one part in the direction of Boeotia, and the other facing Phocis, which at that time reached from sea to sea. And evidence of this is the Schedieium in Daphnus, which, they say, is the tomb of Schedius; but as I have said, Daphnus "split" Locris on either side, so that the Epicnemidian and Opuntian Locrians nowhere bordered on one another; but in later times the place was included within the boundaries of the Opuntians (Strab. 9,3,17).
These extracts are from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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ECHINOUS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Historians enumerate the settlements in the Phthiotic domain that was subject to Achilles, and they begin with the Malians. They name several, and among them Phthiotic Thebes, Echinus, Lamia (near which the Lamian War arose between the Macedonians, under Antipater, and the Athenians, and in this war Leosthenes, a general of the Athenians, fell, and also Leonnatus, the comrade of king Alexander), and also Narthacium, Erineus, Coroneia (bearing the same name as the Boeotian city), Melitaea, Thaumaci, Proerna, Pharsalus, Eretria (bearing the same name as the Euboean city), and Paracheloitae (this, too, bearing the same name as the Aetolian city), for here too, near Lamia, is a river Achelous, on whose banks live the Paracheloitae.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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ELATIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Delphi, I say, is famous because of these things, but Elateia, because it is the largest of all the cities there, and has the most advantageous position, because it is situated in the narrow passes and because he who holds this city holds the passes leading into Phocis and Boeotia. For, first, there are the Oetaean Mountains; and then those of the Locrians and Phocians, which are not everywhere passable to invaders from Thessaly, but have passes, both narrow and separated from one another, which are guarded by the adjacent cities; and the result is, that when these cities are captured, their captors master the passes also.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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FALARA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Thermopylae, then, is separated from Cenaeum by a strait seventy stadia wide; but, to one sailing along the coast beyond Pylae, it is about ten stadia from the Spercheius; and thence to Phalara twenty stadia; and above Phalara, fifty stadia from the sea, is situated the city of the Lamians (Strab. 9.5.13)
KALLIAROS (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Calliarus is no longer inhabited, but is now a beautifully-tilled plain, and they so call it from what is the fact in the case.
KNIMIDES (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
After Daphnus one comes to Cnemides, a natural stronghold, about twenty stadia by sea; and opposite it, in Euboea, lies Cenaeum, a cape facing the west and the Maliac Gulf, and separated from it by a strait about twenty stadia in width.
KYNOS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Cynus is the seaport, a cape which forms the end of the Opuntian Gulf, the gulf being about forty stadia in extent. Between Opus and Cynus is a fertile plain; and Cynus lies opposite Aedepsus in Euboea, where are the hot waters of Heracles, and is separated from it by a strait one hundred and sixty stadia wide. Deucalion is said to have lived in Cynus; and the grave of Pyrrha is to be seen there, though that of Deucalion is to be seen at Athens. Cynus is about fifty stadia distant from Mount Cnemis.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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LARYMNA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
As one proceeds a little farther, however, there are still two small towns belonging to the Boeotians: Larymna, near which the Cephissus empties, and, still farther on, Halae, which bears the same name as the Attic demes (Strab. 9,2,13).
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This is best shown by the Cephissus, which fills lake Copais; for when the lake had increased so much that Copae was in danger of being swallowed up (Copae is named by the poet, and from it the lake took its name), a rent in the earth, which was formed by the lake near Copae, opened up a subterranean channel about thirty stadia in length and admitted the river; and then the river burst forth to the surface near Larymna in Locris; I mean the Upper Larymna, for there is another Larymna, which I have already mentioned, the Boeotian Larymna on the sea, to which the Romans annexed the Upper Larymna (Strab. 9,2,18).
These extracts are from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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MELITEA (Ancient city) DOMOKOS
Historians enumerate the settlements in the Phthiotic domain that was subject to Achilles, and they begin with the Malians. They name several, and among them Phthiotic Thebes, Echinus, Lamia (near which the Lamian War arose between the Macedonians, under Antipater, and the Athenians, and in this war Leosthenes, a general of the Athenians, fell, and also Leonnatus, the comrade of king Alexander), and also Narthacium, Erineus, Coroneia (bearing the same name as the Boeotian city), Melitaea, Thaumaci, Proerna, Pharsalus, Eretria (bearing the same name as the Euboean city), and Paracheloitae (this, too, bearing the same name as the Aetolian city), for here too, near Lamia, is a river Achelous, on whose banks live the Paracheloitae (Strab. 9,5,10).
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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OPOUS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Opus is the metropolis, as is clearly indicated by the inscription on the first of the five pillars in the neighborhood of Thermopylae, near the Polyandrium: "Opoeis, metropolis of the Locrians of righteous laws, mourns for these who perished in defence of Greece against the Medes." It is about fifteen stadia distant from the sea, and sixty from the seaport. Cynus is the seaport, a cape which forms the end of the Opuntian Gulf, the gulf being about forty stadia in extent.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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PROERNA (Ancient city) DOMOKOS
Historians enumerate the settlements in the Phthiotic domain that was subject to Achilles, and they begin with the Malians. They name several, and among them Phthiotic Thebes, Echinus, Lamia (near which the Lamian War arose between the Macedonians, under Antipater, and the Athenians, and in this war Leosthenes, a general of the Athenians, fell, and also Leonnatus, the comrade of king Alexander), and also Narthacium, Erineus, Coroneia (bearing the same name as the Boeotian city), Melitaea, Thaumaci, Proerna, Pharsalus, Eretria (bearing the same name as the Euboean city), and Paracheloitae (this, too, bearing the same name as the Aetolian city), for here too, near Lamia, is a river Achelous, on whose banks live the Paracheloitae.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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SKARFIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Then one comes to the Boagrius River, which flows past Thronium and empties into the sea. They also call it Manes. It is a winter stream, so that at times one can cross it dry-shod, though at other times it has a breadth of two plethra. After this one comes to Scarpheia, which is situated ten stadia above the sea, thirty stadia distant from Thronium, and slightly less from the harbor itself. Then one comes to Nicaea and Thermopylae.
TARFI (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Tarphe is situated on a height, at a distance of twenty stadia from Thronium; its territory is both fruitful and well-wooded, for already this place had been named from its being thickly wooded. But it is now called Pharygae; and here is situated a temple of Pharygaean Hera, so called from the Hera in the Argive Pharygae; and, indeed, they say that they are colonists of the Argives (Strab. 9,4,6).
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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THRONION (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
After twenty stadia from Cnemides one comes to a harbor, above which, at an equal distance in the interior, lies Thronium. Then one comes to the Boagrius River, which flows past Thronium and empties into the sea. They also call it Manes. It is a winter stream, so that at times one can cross it dry-shod, though at other times it has a breadth of two plethra.
VISSA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Bessa does not exist; it is a wooded place.
YAMPOLIS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Hyampolis (later called Hya by some), to which, as I have said(9.2.3), the Hyantes were banished from Boeotia. This city is very far inland, near Parapotamii, and is not the same as Hyampeia on Parnassus.(9.3.15)
ALOPI (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
About the same time the Athenians sent thirty ships to cruise round Locris and also to guard Euboea; Cleopompus, son of Clinias, being in command.
Making descents from the fleet he ravaged certain places on the sea-coast, and captured Thronium and took hostages from it. He also defeated at Alope the Locrians that had assembled to resist him.
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