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THESPIES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In order, then, that this unwillingness may not stand in the way of the weakening of Thebes, let us admit that Thespiae, Orchomenus and Plataea ought to be restored, and let us co-operate with their inhabitants and appeal to the other states, for it is a just and honorable policy not to allow ancient cities to be uprooted; but at the same time let us not abandon Megalopolis and Messene to their oppressors, nor allow the restoration of Plataea and Thespiae to blind us to the destruction of existing and established states.
Thirdly, men of Athens and when I have given just this one further instance, I will at once pass on to some topics that I have omitted—when we ambassadors returned from administering the oaths for the peace,at that time there were some who assured us that Thespiae and Plataea would be rebuilt, that Philip, if he gained the mastery, would protect the Phocians and break up Thebes into villages, and that you would retain Oropus and receive Euboea in exchange for Amphipolis
KORSIES (Ancient city) THISVI
In Boeotia the Phocians held three strongly fortified cities, Orchomenus, Coroneia, and Corsiae
GREA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Name of woman and of Tanagra.The people of Tanagra say that their founder was Poemander, the son of Chaeresilaus, the son of Iasius, the son of Eleuther, who, they say, was the son of Apollo by Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon. It is said that Poemander married Tanagra, a daughter of Aeolus. But in a poem of Corinna she is said to be a daughter of Asopus. There is a story that, as she reached extreme old age, her neighbors ceased to call her by this name, and gave the name of Graea (old woman), first to the woman herself, and in course of time to the city. The name, they say, persisted so long that even Homer says in the Catalogue. Later, however, it recovered its old name.Later, however, it recovered its old name.
TANAGRA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
The people of Tanagra say that their founder was Poemander, the son of Chaeresilaus, the son of Iasius, the son of Eleuther, who, they say, was the son of Apollo by Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon. It is said that Poemander married Tanagra, a daughter of Aeolus. But in a poem of Corinna she is said to be a daughter of Asopus. There is a story that, as she reached extreme old age, her neighbors ceased to call her by this name, and gave the name of Graea (old woman), first to the woman herself, and in course of time to the city. The name, they say, persisted so long that even Homer says in the Catalogue. Later, however, it recovered its old name.Later, however, it recovered its old name.
The first to occupy the land of Thebes are said to have been the Ectenes, whose king was Ogygus, an aboriginal. From his name is derived Ogygian, which is an epithet of Thebes used by most of the poets. The Ectenes perished, they say, by pestilence, and after them there settled in the land the Hyantes and the Aones, who I think were Boeotian tribes and not foreigners. [2] When the Phoenician army under Cadmus invaded the land these tribes were defeated; the Hyantes fled from the land when night came, but the Aones begged for mercy, and were allowed by Cadmus to remain and unite with the Phoenicians. The Aones still lived in village communities, but Cadmus built the city which even at the present day is called Cadmeia. Afterwards the city grew, and so the Cadmeia became the citadel of the lower city of Thebes. (Paus., 9.5.1)
...Amphion and Zethus gathered a force and came back to Thebes. Laius was secretly removed by such as were anxious that the race of Cadmus should not be forgotten by posterity, and Lycus was overcome in the fighting by the sons of Antiope. When they succeeded to the throne they added the lower city to the Cadmeia, giving it, because of their kinship to Thebe, the name of Thebes. ] What I have said is confirmed by what Homer says in the Odyssey: Who first laid the foundation of seven-gated Thebe, And built towers about it, for without towers they could not Dwell in wide-wayed Thebe, in spite of their strength. Homer, however, makes no mention in his poetry of Amphion's singing, and how he built the wall to the music of his harp. Amphion won fame for his music, learning from the Lydians themselves the Lydian mode, because of his relationship to Tantalus, and adding three strings to the four old ones. The writer of the poem on Europa says that Amphion was the first harpist, and that Hermes was his teacher. He also says that Amphion's songs drew even stones and beasts after him. Myro of Byzantium, a poetess who wrote epic and elegiac poetry, states that Amphion was the first to set up an altar to Hermes, and for this reason was presented by him with a harp. (Paus., 9.5.6)
...Polyneices retired from Thebes while Oedipus was still alive and reigning, in fear lest the curses of the father should be brought to pass upon the sons. He went to Argos and married a daughter of Adrastus, but returned to Thebes, being fetched by Eteocles after the death of Oedipus. On his return he quarrelled with Eteocles, and so went into exile a second time. He begged Adrastus to give him a force to effect his return, but lost his army and fought a duel with Eteocles as the result of a challenge. Both fell in the duel, and the kingdom devolved on Laodamas, son of Eteocles; Creon, the son of Menoeceus, was in power as regent and guardian of Laodamas. When the latter had grown up and held the kingship, the Argives led their army for the second time against Thebes. The Thebans encamped over against them at Glisas. When they joined in battle, Aegialeus, the son of Adrastus, was killed by Laodamas but the Argives were victorious in the fight, and Laodamas, with any Theban willing to accompany him, withdrew when night came to Illyria. The Argives captured Thebes and handed it over to Thersander, son of Polyneices. (Paus., 9.5.12)
...when Sulla invaded Boeotia, terror seized the Thebans; they at once changed sides, and sought the friendship of the Romans. [5] Sulla nevertheless was angry with them, and among his plans to humble them was to cut away one half of their territory. His pretext was as follows. When he began the war against Mithridates, he was short of funds. So he collected offerings from Olympia, those at Epidaurus, and all those at Delphi that had been left by the Phocians. [6] These he divided among his soldiery, and repaid the gods with half of the Theban territory. Although by favour of the Romans the Thebans afterwards recovered the land of which they had been deprived, yet from this point they sank into the greatest depths of weakness. The lower city of Thebes is all deserted to-day, except the sanctuaries, and the people live on the citadel, which they call Thebes and not Cadmeia. (Paus., 9.7.4)
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
AKREFNION (Ancient city) THIVES
Perseus Encyclopedia
ARMA (Ancient city) TANAGRA
City of Boeotia.
ASKRA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
The first to sacrifice on Helicon to the Muses and to call the mountain sacred to the Muses were, they say, Ephialtes and Otus, who also founded Ascra. To this also Hegesinus alludes in his poem Atthis:
And again with Ascra lay Poseidon Earth-shaker,
Who when the year revolved bore him a son
Oeoclus, who first with the children of Aloeus founded
Ascra, which lies at the foot of Helicon, rich in springs.
(Paus. 9.29.1)
DELION (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Place in Boeotia, in district of Tanagra, image of Apollo restored to D. by Datis, battle of Delium.
ELEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
A town in Boeotia, territory of E. marches with that of Tanagra
ETEONOS (Ancient city) THIVES
In Locris, Achaeans defeated by Romans at.
GLISSAS (Ancient city) THIVES
Place in Boeotia near Tanagra, battle between Epigoni and Thebans at Glisas.
GREA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Name of woman and of Tanagra.
KITHERON (Mountain) VIOTIA
Mountain of Boeotia, the mountain range between Attica and Boeotia, northern foothills of Cithaeron and passes over the range held by the Greeks against Mardonius, the lion of, killed by Herakles, nymphs of, pass over, Actaeon devoured by his dogs on, Theban women rave in Bacchic frenzy on, Pentheus torn to pieces there, the children of Niobe killed on, the Seven against Thebes at.
KOPES (Ancient city) THIVES
City of Boeotia (Paus. 9,24,1).
KORSIES (Ancient city) THISVI
Town of Boeotia.
KREFSIS (Ancient city) THISVI
Port of Thespiae.
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Boeotian town, battle of, called shady in oracle.
MESSAPIO (Mountain) VIOTIA
Mountain of Boeotia.
OGCHISTOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, precinct of Poseidon at, Megareus at.
OLMONES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Village of Boeotia, formerly called Almones.
PANAKTON (Ancient city) THIVES
In Attica, taken by Cassander.
PLATEES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, its boundaries, its history, Damasistratus, king of, captured by Lacedaemonians and Peloponnesians under Archidamus, captured by Thebans, burnt by the Persians, passim in connection with military operations there, battle of Plataea, list of Greeks who fought at battle of Plataea, trophies of battle of Plataea dedicated at Olympia and Delphi, Plataeans fight at Marathon and are buried at Marathon, names of Plataeans on tombstone at Athens, Plataeans exiled, but afterwards restored by Philip, dedicate statue of ox at Delphi.
POTNIES (Ancient city) THIVA
Place in Boeotia.
SKOLOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Near Thebes in Boeotia, its ruins.
TANAGRA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, its lands occupied by Cadmus, followers, borders on Oropus, near the river Thermodon, people of Tanagra join Megarians in colonising Heraclea on the Euxine, they regulate worship of gods better than any other people, Mardonius there, Athenians and Argives defeated by Lacedaemonians at, cocks of Tanagra, two breeds.
TEFMISSOS (Ancient city) THIVES
Place in Boeotia, Teumesian fox.
THESPIES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, statues of Love by Praxiteles, Lysippus, and Menodorus at, port of, Herakles at, burnt by the Persians, Thespians allies of Thebans, their refusal to submit to Xerxes, their steadfastness at Thermopylae, Sicinnus made a Thespian, Thespians in Pausanias' army.
THISVI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, its distance from Bulis.
THIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, founded by Amphion and Zethus or by Cadmus, its seven gates, Dionysus drives the women mad at, war of the Seven Champions against.
TIFA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Town of Boeotia.
AKREFNION (Ancient city) THIVES
And Acraephium itself also lies on a height. They say that this is called Arne by the poet, the same name as the Thessalian city. Some say that Arne too was swallowed up by the lake, as well as Mideia (Strab. 9,2,34-35).
ARMA (Ancient city) TANAGRA
At his time there was a desert at the place where a sanctuary of Amphiaraos, from the famous legend of the battle of the chariot, used to be (9,2,11).
ELEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Helos and Heleon and Heilesium were so called because they were situated near marshes, but now the case is different with these places, since they have been rebuilt elsewhere, or else the lake has been greatly reduced because of outflows that later took place; for this is possible.
ELOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Helos and Heleon and Heilesium were so called because they were situated near marshes, but now the case is different with these places, since they have been rebuilt elsewhere, or else the lake has been greatly reduced because of outflows that later took place; for this is possible
ETEONOS (Ancient city) THIVES
The name "Eteonus" was changed to "Scarphe," and Scarphe too is in Parasopia; for the Asopus and the Ismenus flow through the plain which is in front of Thebes.
GLISSAS (Ancient city) THIVES
He mentions it as a dwelling on the mount "Hypatos, near Teumissos and Thebes (9,2,31).
GREA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
He places it near Oropos and some say that it is Tanagra (9,2,10).
ILESSION (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Helos and Heleon and Heilesium were so called because they were situated near marshes, but now the case is different with these places, since they have been rebuilt elsewhere, or else the lake has been greatly reduced because of outflows that later took place; for this is possible.
KREFSIS (Ancient city) THISVI
Thespiae is a city near Mt. Helicon, lying somewhat to the south of it; and both it and Helicon are situated on the Crisaean Gulf. It has a seaport Creusa, also called Creusis.
OGCHISTOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Onchestus is where the Amphictyonic Council used to convene, in the territory of Haliartus near Lake Copais and the Teneric Plain; it is situated on a height, is bare of trees, and has a sacred Precinct of Poseidon, which is also bare of trees.
PETEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Peteon is a village in the Theban territory near the road to Anthedon.
POTNIES (Ancient city) THIVA
Some claim that it was the Ypothebes mentioned by Homer. He does not say anything about Thebes, because at his time it had been destroyed by the Expedition of the Epigoni. When Thebes was rebuilt the settlement was named Potniae after its goddesses.
SCHINOS (Ancient city) THIVES
Schoenus is a district of the Theban territory on the road that leads from Thebes to Anthedon, and is about fifty stadia distant from Thebes; and there is also a river Schoenus which flows through it.
SKOLOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Scolus is a village in the Parasopian country at the foot of Mount Cithaeron.
THERAPNES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
And in the territory of Thebes are also Therapnae and Teumessus, which latter Antimachus has adorned with praise in many verses, although he enumerates goodly attributes which do not belong to it, as, for instance, "there is a windy little hill"; but the verses are well known.
THESPIES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
The "Thespiae" of today is by Antimachus spelled "Thespeia"; for there are many names of places which are used in both ways, both in the singular and in the plural, just as there are many which are used both in the masculine and in the feminine, whereas there are others which are used in either one or the other number only. Thespiae is a city near Mt. Helicon, lying somewhat to the south of it; and both it and Helicon are situated on the Crisaean Gulf. It has a seaport Creusa, also called Creusis.(...)
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
THISVI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Thisbe is now called Thisbae; the place is inhabited and is situated slightly above the sea, bordering on the territory of the Thespians and on that of Coroneia; and it, too, lies at the foot of Helicon on the south (Strav. 9,2,28).
THISVI PORT (Ancient port) VIOTIA
Thisbae has a seaport situated on a rocky place, which abounds in doves (Strav. 9,2,28).
THIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In these words of the poet, "and those who held Hypothebes," (Hom. Il. 2.505)
some take him to mean some little city called Hypothebes, others Potniae; for
Thebes, the latter say, was deserted because of the expedition of the Epigoni
and had no part in the Trojan War. The former, however, say that the Thebans indeed
had a part in the war, but that they were living in the level districts below
Cadmeia(The acropolis of Thebes) at that time, since they were unable to rebuild
Cadmeia; and since Cadmeia was called Thebes, they add, the poet called the Thebans
of that time "Hypothebans" instead of "people who live below Cadmeia."
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
YPOTHIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In these words of the poet, "and those who held Hypothebes," some take him to mean some little city called Hypothebes, others Potniae; for Thebes, the latter say, was deserted because of the expedition of the Epigoni and had no part in the Trojan War. The former, however, say that the Thebans indeed had a part in the war, but that they were living in the level districts below Cadmeia at that time, since they were unable to rebuild Cadmeia; and since Cadmeia was called Thebes, they add, the poet called the Thebans of that time "Hypothebans" instead of "people who live below Cadmeia.
TIFA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
The seaport town of Siphae, in the bay of Crisae, in the Thespian territory . . .
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