Erythrae (Boeotia)
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]
References
- Homer. Iliad. 2.499.
- Strabo. Geographica. ix. p.404. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- Herodotus. Histories. 9.15, 25.
- Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 3.24.
- Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
- Xenophon. Hellenica. 5.4.49.
- Pausanias. Description of Greece. 9.2.1.
- Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.