Erythra

Erythrae (Boeotia)

Erythrae (Boeotia)

Ancient town in Boeotia, Greece

38°14′09″N 23°24′13″E

For other uses, see Erythrae (disambiguation).

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

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

References

  1. [1]
    Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.499.
  2. [2]
    Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.404. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. [3]
    Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 9.15, 25.
  4. [4]
    Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 3.24.
  5. [5]
    Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  6. [6]
    Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 5.4.49.
  7. [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. [8]
    Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  9. [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.


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