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🌍 Potniai (Boiotia)

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  • Information
    town near Thebes
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/541070
    Identified with
    🌍 Hypothebai (Boiotia) unlocatable city in Boiotia, likely identifiable with Thebes
    Cult site of
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian) Olympian god
    Place of death of
    👤 Glaucos (Corinthian) son of Sisyphos, mortal father of Bellerophon
    Encompasses
    🏛️ Spring Potniai (Boiotia)
    Related entities
    🌍 Hypothebai (Boiotia) unlocatable city in Boiotia, likely identifiable with Thebes👤 Dionysos (Olympian) Olympian god👤 Aphrodite Olympian goddess👥 the Mares of Glaucos👤 Glaucos (Corinthian) son of Sisyphos, mortal father of Bellerophon👥 the Horses of Potniai driven mad by the water of Potniai🌍 Spring and River Dirce (Thebes) river at Thebes
    Mentioned by
    📖 Strabo 9.2.32📖 Pausanias 9.8.1📖 Servius, Scholia on Georgics 3.268📖 Vergil, Georgics 3.250-3.283📖 Pliny, Natural History 25.94 = 25.53.2
    Mentioned in text
    StraboPausaniasServius, Scholia on GeorgicsVergil, GeorgicsPliny, Natural History
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Vergil, Georgics
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Vergil, Georgics 3.250-3.283
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