Listed 33 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "LEVADIA Province VIOTIA" .
ALALKOMENES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Alalcomenae is a small village, and it lies at the very foot of a mountain of
no great height. Its name, some say, is derived from Alalcomeneus, an aboriginal,
by whom Athena was brought up; others declare that Alalcomenia was one of the
daughters of Ogygus. At some distance from the village on the level ground has
been made a temple of Athena with an ancient image of ivory.
Sulla's treatment of the Athenians was savage and foreign to the Roman character,
but quite consistent with his treatment of Thebes and Orchomenus. But in Alalcomenae
he added yet another to his crimes by stealing the image of Athena itself. After
these mad outrages against the Greek cities and the gods of the Greeks he was
attacked by the most foul of diseases. He broke out into lice, and what was formerly
accounted his good fortune came to such an end. The sanctuary at Alalcomenae,
deprived of the goddess, was hereafter neglected.
In my time yet another incident added to the ruin of the temple. A large and strong
ivy-tree grew over it, loosening the stones from their joints and tearing them
apart. Here too there flows a river, a small torrent. They call it Triton, because
the story is that beside a river Triton Athena was reared, the implication being
that the Triton was this and not the river in Libya, which flows into the Libyan
sea out of lake Tritonis.(Paus. 9.33.5-7)
Not far from Alalcomenae is a grove of oaks. Here the trunks of the oaks are the
largest in Boeotia... (Paus. 9.3.4)
Before reaching Coroneia from Alalcomenae we come to the sanctuary of Itonian
Athena... (Paus. 9.34.1)
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited April 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
PARAPOTAMII (Ancient city) CHERONIA
The land beside the Cephisus is distinctly the best in Phocis for planting, sowing and pasture. This part of the district, too, is the one most under cultivation, so that there is a saying that the verse, "And they who dwelt beside the divine river Cephisus", alludes, not to a city Parapotamii (Riverside ), but to the farmers beside the Cephisus. The saying, however, is at variance with the history of Herodotus as well as with the records of victories at the Pythian games. For the Pythian games were first held by the Amphictyons, and at this first meeting a Parapotamian of the name of Aechmeas won the prize in the boxing match for boys. Similarly Herodotus, enumerating the cities that King Xerxes burnt in Phocis, includes among them the city of Parapotamii. However, Parapotamii was not restored by the Athenians and Boeotians, but the inhabitants, being poverty stricken and few in number, were distributed among the other cities. I found no ruins of Parapotamii left, nor is the site of the city remembered.
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.
ALIARTOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, burned by Medes, its roofless and half-burnt temples, Tolmides defeated at H., attacked by Lacedaemonians under Lysander, land of Haliartus formerly belonged to Athamas.
AMVROSSOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Phocis, its walls, destroyed after Sacred War.
ANTIKYRA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
ASPLIDON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia
CHERONIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, formerly called Arne, its unguents, Chaeroneans worship sceptre made by Hephaestus, battle of Ch., Arcadians defeated by Romans at Ch., Taxilus defeated at Ch. by Sulla, lion of Ch., trophies.
DAVLIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Phocis, destroyed after Sacred War, Tereus reigned at, Procne and Philomela at Daulis.
EOLIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
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FLYGONION (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Phocis, destroyed after Sacred War.
KORONIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
A town in Boeotia, battle of.
LEFYSTION (Mountain) LEVADIA
The distance from Coroneia to Mount Laphystius and the precinct of Laphystian Zeus is about twenty stades. The image is of stone. They say that when Athamas was about to sacrifice here Phrixus and Helle, a ram with his fleece of gold was sent by Zeus to the children, and that on the back of this ram they made good their escape. (Paus. 9.34.5)
LEVADIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Lebadeia: City of Boeotia, sacred to Trophonius, shield of Aristomenes. Midea: City of Boeotia.
OKALEI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In Boeotia, Alcmena at.
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, called Minyan, its wealth and prosperity.
PANOPEFS (Ancient city) CHERONIA
City of Phocis, on the borders of Phocis and Boeotia, Xerxes' army there, destroyed after Sacred War.
PARAPOTAMII (Ancient city) CHERONIA
City of Phocis, burnt by the Persians, destroyed after Sacred War.
PARNASSOS (Mountain) VIOTIA
The mountain above Delphi, a refuge for the Delphians, Mt. Parnassus named after Parnassus, Deucalion on, snowy, makes climate of Lilaea cold in winter, ascent of, path over, orgies of Dionysus held by Thyiads on, repulse of Persians there, Parnassian glen.
STIRIS (Ancient city) DISTOMO
City of Phocis, destroyed after Sacred War.
VOULIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Town of Phocis.
YITTOS (Ancient city) ORCHOMENOS
Village of Boeotia.
ALALKOMENES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Now as for Alalcomenae, the poet mentions it, but not in the Catalogue:
"Argive Hera and Alalcomenian Athena."
It has an ancient temple of Athena which is held in great honor; and they say,
at least, that the goddess was born there, just as Hera was born in Argos, and
that it was because of this that the poet named them both in this way, as natives
of these places. And it was because of this, perhaps, that he did not mention
in the Catalogue the men of Alalcomenae, since, being sacred, they were excused
from the expedition. And in fact the city always continued unravaged, although
it was neither large nor situated in a secure position, but in a plain. But all
peoples, since they revered the goddess, held aloof from any violence towards
the inhabitants, so that when the Thebans, at the time of the expedition of the
Epigonoi, left their city, they are said to have fled for refuge to Alalcomenae,
and to Tilphossius, the mountain, a natural stronghold that lies above it; and
at the base of this mountain is a spring called Tilphossa, and the monument of
Teiresias, who died there at the time of the flight (Strab. 9,2,36).
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Jan 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ALIARTOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Haliartus is no longer in existence, having been razed to the ground in the war against Perseus; and the country is held by the Athenians, a gift from the Romans. It was situated in a narrow place, between the mountain situated above it and Lake Copais, near the Permessus and Olmeius Rivers and the marsh that produces the flute reed (Strab. 9,2,30).
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Jan 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ASPLIDON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Aspledon was by some called Spledon, without the first syllable. Then the name,
both of it and of the country, was changed to Eudeielos, perhaps because, from
its "evening" inclination, it offered a special advantage peculiar to
its inhabitants, especially the mildness of its winters; for the two ends of the
day are coldest; and of these the evening is colder than the morning, for as night
approaches the cold is more intense, and as night retires it abates. But the sun
is a means of mitigating the cold. The place, therefore, that is warmed most by
the sun at the coldest time is mildest in winter. Eudeielos is twenty stadia distant
from Orchomenus. And the River Melas is between them.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Jan 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
DAVLIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
After Delphi, approximately towards the east, is a town Daulis, where Tereus the Thracian is said to have held sway (the scene of the mythical story of Philomela and Procne is laid there, though Thucydides says at Megara). The place got its name from the thickets, for they call thickets "dauli." Now Homer called it Daulis, but later writers call it Daulia. And "Cyparissus," in the words "held Cyparissus," is interpreted by writers in two ways, by some as bearing the same name as the tree, and by others, by a slight change in the spelling, as a village below Lycoreia.
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.
LEVADIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Strabo mentions that Midea and Arne (which he calls "Acraephnion") were both flooded by the waters of the Kopais lake (9,2,35).
MEDEON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
The Phocian Medeon is on the Crisaean Gulf, at a distance of one hundred and sixty stadia from Boeotia, whereas the Boeotian Medeon, which was named after it, is near Onchestus at the base of the mountain Phoenicius (Stravo 9,2,26).
OKALEI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Ocalee is midway between Haliartus and Alalcomenium, thirty stadia distant from each; and a river bearing the same name flows past it.
PANOPEFS (Ancient city) CHERONIA
Panopeus, the Phanoteus of today, borders on the region of Lebadeia, and is the native land of Epeius. And the scene of the myth of Tityus is laid here. Homer says that the Phaeacians "led" Rhadamanthys into Euboea "to see Tityus, son of the Earth." And a cave called Elarium is to be seen in the island, named after Elara the mother of Tityus; and also a hero-temple of Tityus, and certain honors which are paid to him.
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.
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
The seaport town of Siphae, in the bay of Crisae, in the Thespian territory, was to be betrayed to them by one party; Chaeronea (a dependency of what was formerly called the Minyan, now the Boeotian, Orchomenus ), to be put into their hands by another from that town, whose exiles were very active in the business, hiring men in Peloponnese.
Some time after this, Orchomenus, Chaeronea, and some other places in Boeotia, being in the hands of the Boeotian exiles, the Athenians marched against the above-mentioned hostile places with a thousand Athenian heavy infantry and the allied contingents, under the command of Tolmides, son of Tolmaeus.
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