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Erythrae (Boeotia)

Coordinates: 38°14′09″N 23°24′13″E / 38.235699°N 23.403565°E / 38.235699; 23.403565
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38°14′09″N 23°24′13″E / 38.235699°N 23.403565°E / 38.235699; 23.403565

Erythrae or Erythrai (Ancient Greek: Ἐρυθραί) was a town in ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer among the Boeotians ruled by Thersander in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.[1] It lay a little south of the Asopus, at the foot of Mount Cithaeron.[2] The camp of Mardonius extended along the Asopus from Erythrae and past Hysiae to the territory of Plataea.[3] Erythrae is frequently mentioned by other authorities in connection with Hysiae.[4][5] Apollodorus records the town as Erythra (Ἐρυθρά).[6] It was in ruins in the time of Pausanias (second century).[7]

The site of Erythrae is at a place called Darimari in the current town of Erythres.[8][9]

Attribution

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Erythrae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

References

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  1. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.499.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.404. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 9.15, 25.
  4. ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 3.24.
  5. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  6. ^ Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 5.4.49.
  7. ^ Pausanias (1918). "2.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 9. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  8. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  9. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.