coord 38.184444 N 23.249167 E display title Cithaeron spider Cithaeron is also a spider genus Cithaeronidae . Kithairon , is a mountain range No corner of Kithairon echoless , Oedipus Rex 440 about 10 mi 16 km long, in central Greece , standing between Boeotia in the north and Attica in the south. It is mainly composed of limestone and rises to 4,623 ft 1,409 m . Its northeast side is formed by the mountain Pastra mountain Pastra . The range was the scene of many events in Greek mythology and was especially sacred to Dionysus Citation needed date February 2011 . Oedipus was exposed on the mountain, while Aktaion and Pentheus were both dismembered on its slopes. It was also the place where Heracles hunted and killed the Nemean lion , in the first of his long series of heroic deeds. In historic times, the mountain acted as a backdrop to the Battle of Plataea of 479 BC and was the scene of much skirmishing before the battle itself. In later times fortifications were built both at Plataea and Erythres Erythrai as the mountain formed the disputed natural border between Athens and Ancient Thebes Boeotia Thebes . The people of Plataea also personified the mountain as their primal king The Plataians know of no king except Asopos and Kithairon before him, holding that the latter gave his name to the mountain, the former to the river . Pausanias geographer Pausanias 9.1.1 References http www.theoi.com Georgikos OrosKithairon.html Theoi Project Kithairon Greek myth stub Category Greek mythology Category Mythological kings Category Mountains of Greece Kitheronas Category Battle of Plataea bg br Kiteron de Kithairon et Kithair nas el es Citer n eu Ziteron fr Mont Cith ron it Monte Citerone la Cithaeron lb Kithairon nl Kithairon ja nn Kither nas pt Monte Citer o ru ... more details
daedala up to the summit of Kithairon Mount Kithairon , where a wooden sacrificial altar was erected ... Mythology Asopus . So Zeus followed the advice of Kithairon . Hera heard the news at once, and at once ... advice to deceive Hera from Alalcomenes instead of Kithairon , and that he calls Plataea , Daedala . ref ... more details
refimprove date April 2012 The Pastra lang el is a mountain in West Attica , Greece , near the border with Boeotia . It is part of the Kithairon Kithaironas mountain range. Its highest peak, named Petrogeraki , is 1016 m high. ref http www.oreivatein.com oreivatein page mountains mounts2 7.htm Oreivatein ref The nearby peak Kourtiza is 1015 m high. Its morphology is defined by steep slopes and four deep gorges on the Boxing the compass NE side. Its flora consists of brushwood, Holm Oak holm oaks , pine trees , and arbutus . Its fauna includes hares , foxes , Common Blackbird blackbirds , and Perdix partridges . History A number of municipalities and settlements were located around Pastra in antiquity including Oinoi , Eleftherai , Erythres Erythrai , and Ysiai . A number of fortifications on the mountain s passages from 400 Before Christ B.C. survive to this age. On December 20, 1997 a Hellenic Air Force airplane C 130 Hercules C 130H 750, c.n. 4729, crashed into Pastra during the landing approach to Tanagra air base. Religious buildings On Pastra one can find the monastery of Profitis Ilias and the chapels gios Dimitrios , gios Athanasios , , Agia Marina , Agia Triada , and Agios Georgios . References reflist coord 38.1987 23.3780 display title Category Mountains of Greece Pastra nn P stra ... more details
Greece inspired him to write In Kithairon s Shadow , his first novel. His subsequent historical novels ... . Books In Kithairon s Shadow A Novel of Ancient Greece and the Persian War December 7, 2003 In 480 ... hung on the outcome. In Kithairon s Shadow is the story of five men from ancient Greece and the parts ... more details
Noref date August 2010 Leuctra lang el was a village in ancient Greece , in Boeotia , seven miles southwest of Thebes Greece Thebes . It is primarily known today as the site of the important 371 BC Battle of Leuctra in which the Thebans , under Epaminondas , defeated the Sparta ns. The Spartan hegemony was fallen after that battle, and the Thebans became a new power within the Hellenic world, until the rise of Macedon. A modern Greek village whose name is often transcribed Lefktra in accordance with modern Greek pronunciation is now part of the municipality of Plataies . Lefktra today Lefktra is a traditional Greek village of Central Greece Roumeli , located in the foothill of Kithairon 300 meters attribute . The population of Lefktra is 1,300 people nowadays. Thebes the capital town of county Thivon is sixteen kilometers away and Athens 70 km away, from the old national road. There are bus lines from Thebes to Lefktra and vice versa daily, and from Athens to Lefktra at the weekends. Residents main occupations are agriculture and stockbreeding. Livadostra and Koromili beaches are ten minutes away by car. Municipality of Lefktra, Kapareli, Plataies and Melisoxori Kapareli and Lefktra were separate municipalities, and Plataies and Melisoxori as well were separate communities, until 1997, when the ministry of internal affairs decided to make a town unification. The town seat is based in Kapareli for population reasons and the new Municipality took the name of Plataies for historical reasons. These communities are approximately six miles 9 km away from each other. Greece geo stub coord 38 15 16 N 23 10 56 E source elwiki region GR type city display title Category Geography of ancient Boeotia ar bg el pl Leuktry pt Leuctra ru ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2007 File Alkionides.JPG right thumb 300px The Alkyonides Gulf lang el Kolpos Alkyonidon is a bay that connects with the Gulf of Corinth to the west. The bay is approximately 20 to 25 km long and 20 km wide. It stretches from Aigosthena to Cape Trachilos from east to west and from Cape Trachilos to the peninsula of Perachora from north to south. Three regioanl units surround the gulf Corinthia to the south, West Attica to the east and Boeotia to the north. Except for the Megaris Plain to the southeast, mountains surround the gulf. These mountains include the Geraneia to the south, Pateras to the east, Kithairon to the northeast and Mount Helicon to the north. Beaches include Mikra Strava, Strava, Mavrolimni, Kato Alepochori, Aigosthena, Alyki and Paralia Korinis. The Alkyonides Islands, which are also known as Kala Nisia Good Islands , lie in the western end. These islands include Daskalio, Prasonisi and Zoodochos Pigi. More islands, including Fonias and Makronisos lie to the extreme north. Kouveli, in the Domvrenas Bay, also lies in the north. Bays by the gulf Chinou Bay , south Psatha Bay , southeast Aigosthena Bay , east Livadostras Bay , northeast Domvraina Bay , northwest Places by the gulf Pisia Agia Sotira , south Pisia Mavrolimni , southeast Megara Aigeirouses , southeast Vilia Kato Alepochori , southeast Aigosthena , east Plataies Agios Vasileios , northeast Xironomi Alyki , north coord 38.12 23.07 display title Category Attica Category Boeotia Category Gulfs of Greece Category Gulfs of the Ionian Sea el nn Alkyon desbukta ... more details
In Greek mythology , the ourea lang grc O mountains, plural of lang grc O were progeny of Gaia mythology Gaia , members of the Greek primordial deities , who were the first born elemental gods and goddesses, children of Gaia blockquote And she brought forth long hills, graceful haunts br of the goddess Nymph s who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. ref Hesiod , Theogony , http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0130 3Acard 3D104 129&ndash 131 Argonautica , 1.498. ref blockquote The ten ourea , Aitna, Athos, Helikon, Kithairon, Nysos, Olympus 1, Olympus 2, Oreios, Parnes, and Tmolus , like Uranus mythology Uranus , and Pontus mythology Pontus , were parthenogetic offspring of Gaia alone. The Greeks rarely personified an individual mountain an exception might be Tmolus , both a king and a mountain in Lydia. Each mountain was said to have its own local nymph , an oread . Peak sanctuaries , a feature of Minoan civilization on Crete, are also identified in some archaic sites in mainland Greece. ref Walter Burkert , Greek Religion , 1985 26 28. ref They are not thought to be dedicated to the mountain itself. Notes reflist References Littleton, Scott and the Marshall Cavendish Corporation Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, Volume 1 . Marshall Cavendish, 2005. ISBN 9780761475590. http books.google.com books?id HC93q4gsOAwC&pg PA1020&dq Ourea&hl en&ei PkE2TNn6NsP78AbM95DUAw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 10&ved 0CE0Q6AEwCQ v onepage&q Ourea&f false pp. 1020, 1134 Fitz Simon, James A., Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, The Gods of Old and The Story That They Tell , T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. http books.google.com books?id 4h8rAAAAYAAJ&pg PA27&dq Ourea&hl en&ei 5ms6TP6LLIH88AaT4 ymBg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 6&ved 0CD0Q6AEwBTgK v onepage&q Ourea&f false p. 27 Hard, Robin, Herbert Jennings Rose, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology Based on H.J. Rose s Handbook of Greek mythology , Routledge, 2004. ISBN 9780415186360. http books ... more details
Agraeus lang el , Agraios was the name of a number of personages from ancient myth, but was primarily known as an epithet of the god Apollo in Greek mythology , ref name DGRBM Cite book last Schmitz first Leonhard author link contribution Agraeus editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 75 publisher Little, Brown and Company place Boston year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0084.html postscript None ref which meant the hunter . ref name ls cite book last Liddell first Henry authorlink Henry Liddell coauthors Robert Scott philologist Robert Scott title A Greek English Lexicon publisher Oxford University Press year 1996 location Oxford pages 14 url doi id isbn 0 19 864226 1 ref After Apollo had killed the lion of Kithairon , a temple was erected to him by Alcathous, son of Pelops , at Megara under the name of Apollo Agraeus some accounts report that Alcathous himself killed the lion . ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias , Description of Greece i. 41. 4 6 ref ref Eustathius of Thessalonica , on the Iliad p. 361 ref The epithet was also sometimes used, in the feminine form Agraea or Agraia , for the goddess Artemis , ref name ls which was synonymous with her epithet Agrotera . ref cite book last Bell first Robert E. authorlink Robert E. Bell coauthors title Women of Classical Mythology A Biographical Dictionary publisher ABC CLIO year 1991 location pages 17, 191, 253 url http books.google.com ?id 1KIYAAAAIAAJ doi id isbn 0 87436 581 3 ref There is also evidence, attested to by Philo , that Agraeus was a minor god figure in the mythology of Phoenicia who invented hunting. ref cite book last Moscati first Sabatino authorlink coauthors title The Phoenicians publisher I.B. Tauris year 2001 location pages 135 url http books.google.com ?id 1EEtmT9Tbj4C doi id isbn 1 85043 533 2 ref There was also a Heracleidae Heraclid named Agraeus, the son of Temenus , and youngest br ... more details
The Boeotian or Theban War broke out in 378 BCE as the result of a revolt in Thebes against Sparta. The war would last six years. ref Historians History of the World, Editor Henry Smith Williams vol 4 p140 ref Outbreak of the War File 7264 Piraeus Arch. Museum, Athens Bronze shields Photo by Giovanni Dall Orto, Nov 14 2009.jpg Hoplite Shields thumb 220px In 378 BCE a revolt in Thebes led to the assassination of the ruling 3 man junta and the expulsion of the Spartan garrison. ref Spartans, a new history , Nigel Kennell, 2010, p139 ref An expedition against Thebes was mounted led by Kleombrotus achieved little but left a garrison in Thespiae under Sphodrias. ref Spartans, a new history , Nigel Kennell, 2010, p140 ref That winter Sphodrias attempted a raid on Pireus which ended in fiasco. ref Spartans, a new history , Nigel Kennell, 2010, p140 ref Sphodrias had not acted under orders and was brought to trial. However, he was acquitted which led Athens to declare for Thebes ref Historians History of the World, Editor Henry Smith Williams vol 4 p140 ref The War Two expeditions against Thebes led by King Agesilaus achieved little. ref Historians History of the World, Editor Henry Smith Williams vol 4 p142 ref Mark Munn argues that it is likely that the Dema wall was built at this time to defend Attica. ref Mark H. Munn, The Defense of Attica The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378 375 BC Berkeley University of California Press, 1993 ref An expedition in 376 BCE led by King Keombrotus was blocked at the passes of Kithairon . ref Historians History of the World, Editor Henry Smith Williams vol 4 p142 ref Sparta then sent a fleet in and attempted to blockade Athens. ref Historians History of the World, Editor Henry Smith Williams vol 4 pp 142 3 ref The result was the defeat of the Spartan fleet at the Battle of Naxos at the hands of a predominately Athenian fleet commanded by Chabrias in 376 BCE. ref Agesilaos, P Cartledge p377 ref In 375 BCE Athens mounted 2 successful e ... more details
There is a body of ancient and modern fiction set in ancient Greece and ancient Greek culture, including Magna Graeca and Hellenistic kingdoms. Titles include Books alphabetical by author series order please, pub year if known see discussion The Dancer from Atlantis , by Poul Anderson 1971 The Firebrand , by Marion Zimmer Bradley 1987 The Sand Reckoner , by Gillian Bradshaw 2000 about Archimedes Chaereas and Callirhoe , by Chariton of Aphrodisias 1st century Achilles , by Elizabeth Cook 2003 A Victor of Salamis A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles , by William Stearns Davis 1907 L. Sprague de Camp s historical fiction An Elephant for Aristotle 1958 The Bronze God of Rhodes 1960 The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate 1961 The Arrows of Hercules 1965 The Golden Wind 1969 Margaret Doody , Aristotle and Stephanos series Aristotle Detective 1978 Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin 1980 Aristotle and Poetic Justice 2000 Aristotle and the Secrets of Life 2002 Anello di bronzo Ring of Bronze 2003 Poison in Athens 2004 Mysteries of Eleusis novel Mysteries of Eleusis 2005 The Ten Thousand , by Michael Curtis Ford 2001 Oracle , by Jackie French 2010 The Wreckage of Agathon , by John Gardner novelist John Gardner 1970 Celestial Matters , by Richard Garfinkle 1996 Troy Lord of the Silver Bow , by David Gemmell 2005 The Double Tongue , by William Golding 1995 The Golden Fleece U.K. aka Hercules, My Shipmate USA by Robert Graves 1945 Homer s Daughter by Robert Graves 1955 The Rage of Achilles , by Terence Hawkins 2009 Aethiopica or Theagenes and Chariclea , by Heliodorus of Emesa 2nd century The Plot to Save Socrates , by Paul Levinson 2006 Daphnis and Chloe , by Longus 2nd century True History , by Lucian 2nd century AD , not necessarily set anywhere near Greece Spartan , by Valerio Massimo Manfredi 2003 In Kithairon s Shadow , by Jon Edward Martin 2003 Shades of Artemis , by Jon Edward Martin 2005 Cloud Cuckoo Land , by Naomi Mitchison 1925 set in 5th century BC The Isle ... more details
Merge Attica region date January 2012 About the historical region of Greece the modern administrative region Attica region Other uses Attica disambiguation Refimprove date March 2009 Infobox Regions Ancient Greece name Attica name polytonic image 2006 01 21 Ath nes Parth non.JPG caption The Parthenon in Athens Location Regions of Ancient Greece Central Greece Central Greece Major cities Athens , Piraeus Dialects Attic Greek Attic Key periods Delian League Athenian Empire br 477&ndash 404 BC br Second Athenian Empire Second Athenian Confederacy br 378&ndash 338 BC image map Attica map.jpg caption map Map of ancient Attica Attica lang el , Attik IPA el ati ci is a historical region of Greece , containing Athens , the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea. There is a modern administrative region of Greece, Attica region Attica region, which is more extensive than the historical region, and includes several islands, and part of the Peloponnese . The history of Attica is tightly linked with that of Athens, which from the Classical Greece Classical period onwards, was one of the most important cities in the ancient world. Geography File Aerial view of Rafina Harbour 20.02.2009 12 20 04.JPG thumb left Aerial view of Rafina File Port of Piraeus.jpg thumb left Panoramic view of the western part of the city and the port of Piraeus region of Attica in Greece Attica is a triangular peninsula jutting into the Aegean Sea . It is naturally divided to the north from Boeotia by the convert 10 mi km 0 abbr on long Kithairon mountain range. To the west it is bordered by the sea and canal of Corinth, Greece Corinth . The Saronic Gulf lies to the south and the island of Euboea lies off the north and eastern coasts. Mountains separate the peninsula into the plains of Pedias, Mesogaia, and Thriasion. The mountains include Hymettus , the eastern portion of the Geraneia , Parnitha , Aigaleo and ... more details
are Mount Parnassus in the west, Mount Helicon in the southwest, Kithairon in the south and Parnitha ... . p.186 ref Returning to Thebes, on Mount Kithairon she gave birth to the twins Amphion, son of the god ... more details
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