Listed 12 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "FTHIOTIDA Province GREECE" .
ECHINOUS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
ALPINI (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
A village behind the Greek position at Thermopylae.
ANTHILI (Ancient city) LAMIA
A village near the pass of Thermopylae.
CHIN (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Village on Mt. Oeta.
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) LAMIA
Under Mt. Oeta, besieged by Achaeans, compelled by Aetolians to join their confederacy, repulses Gauls.
LAMIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Siege of, battle of, Lamian war, Lamian Gulf.
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.
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.
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.
ALOPI (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Strabo mentions Alope under the name of Halius as well (Strab. 9,5,8).
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
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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)
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