Listed 12 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "VIOTIA Ancient area GREECE" .
ARNI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Old name of Chaeronea.
ATHAMANTION PEDION (Ancient plain) VIOTIA
ATHINA VIOTIKI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Perseus Encyclopedia
ELEFSIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
According to the Boeotians there were once other inhabited towns near the lake, Athens and Eleusis, but there occurred a flood one winter which destroyed them.
VIOTIA (Ancient area) GREECE
Boundaries of, most cities of Boeotia named after women, Phoenician immigration, war with Athens, alliance with Aegina, "sacred road" through Boeotia, strife of Athens and Boeotia, submission to Xerxes, Boeotians at Thermopylae, nearly all Boeotia on Persian side, Mardonius established in Boeotia, Boeotians in his army, their courage, ruled by Athamas, Ocaleae in, Rhadamanthys in, Cadmus traverses, Eleutherae in, easiest pass from B. into Phocis.
ARNI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
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 (9,2,34-35).
ATHINA VIOTIKI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Now at that time, when the flooding of the lake ceased, there was also a cessation of danger to those who lived near it, except in the case of the cities which had already been swallowed up. And though the subterranean channels filled up again, Crates the mining engineer of Chalcis ceased clearing away the obstructions because of party strife among the Boeotians, although, as he himself says in the letter to Alexander, many places had already been drained. Among these places, some writers suppose, was the ancient site of Orchomenus, and others, those of Eleusis and Athens on the Triton River. These cities, it is said, were founded by Cecrops, when he ruled over Boeotia, then called Ogygia, but were later wiped out by inundations.
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.
NISSA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In the historic times Nissa could not be located. Stravon identifies it with Nyssa, a small town of Helikon (Strab. 9,2,14).
SALGANEFS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Boeotia is superior to the countries of the bordering tribes, not only in fertility of soil, but also because it alone has three seas and has a greater number of good harbors; in the Crisaean and Corinthian Gulfs it receives the products of Italy and Sicily and Libya, while in the part which faces Euboea, since its seaboard branches off on either side of the Euripus, on one side towards Aulis and the territory of Tanagra and on the other towards Salganeus and Anthedon, the sea stretches unbroken…
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.
VIOTIA (Ancient area) GREECE
Strabo 9,2,1-42
YLI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Among the neighboring lakes are Lake Trephia and the Cephissian Lake, which is also mentioned by the poet: "Who dwelt in Hyle, strongly intent upon wealth, on the shore of the Cephissian Lake." For he does not mean Lake Copais, as some think, but lake Hylice, which is named after the village near by that is called Hyle.
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