Erythrae (Boeotia)

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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]

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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.

[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.

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