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🌍 Mount Cithairon (Attica/Boiotia)

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  • Alternative name
    🌍 Mount Asterion (alt. Cithairon)
    Information
    mountain on Boiotia-Attica border
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540714
    Cult site of
    👤 Semele👤 Dionysos (Olympian)
    Place of death of
    👤 Ino👤 Actaion👤 Pentheus👤 the Cithaironian Lion👤 Melicertes👤 Cithairon (eponym II)👥 the Children of Niobe👤 Dirce (w. of Lycos)👤 the Serpent of Teiresias
    Transformed from
    👤 Cithairon (personification)
    Personification
    👤 Cithairon (personification)
    Eponym
    👤 Cithairon (eponym I)👤 Cithairon (eponym II)
    Encompasses
    🏛️ the Bed of Actaion (Mt Cithairon) 🌍 the Meadow of Hera (Mt Cithairon)
    Related entities
    👤 Amphitryon👤 the Cithaironian Lion👤 Heracles👤 Thespios👤 Actaion👤 Zeus (Olympian)👤 Semele👥 the Dogs of Actaion👤 Artemis👤 Agaue (Theban)👤 Dionysos (Olympian)👤 Pentheus👤 Laios👤 Oedipus👤 Theban Shepherd (name unknown)🌍 Argos (city)🌍 Thebes (Boiotia)🌍 Nemea (Argolid)👥 the Seven against Thebes👤 Cithairon (eponym I)👤 Hera🌍 Plataia (Boiotia)👤 Plataia (eponym)🏺 the Tree of Pentheus⏳ Dionysos' time on earth👤 Alcathoos (Megarian)👤 Theseus🏛️ the Tombs of the Fighters with the Seven against Thebes (Eleutherai)👥 the Fighters with the Seven Against Thebes👤 Athamas (Orchomenian)👤 Ino👤 Melicertes👤 Amphion (Theban)🏺 the Lyre of Amphion👤 Apollo👤 Thebe (Boiotian)👤 Boiotos👤 Eurythemiste👤 Tisiphone (Erinys)👤 Cithairon (eponym II)🌍 Mount Asterion (alt. Cithairon)👤 Cithairon (personification)👥 the Erinyes🌍 Mount Ida (Troad)🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace)🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece)🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos)🌍 Mount Oita (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily)🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis)🌍 Mount Ossa (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia)🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor)🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria)👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios)🌍 Mount Helicon (Boiotia)🌍 Mount Othrys (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Cynthos (Delos)🏺 the Chariot of Helios🌍 Mount Pindos (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Rhodope (Thrace)🌍 the Taurus Mountains🌍 the Alps👥 the Horses of Helios🌍 Mount Eryx (Sicily)🌍 the Apennine Mountains🌍 Mount Dindymon (Bear Island)🌍 Acte (Chalcidice)👤 Autonoe (Theban)👤 Teiresias👤 Leto👤 Niobe (Theban)👥 the Children of Niobe🏛️ Spring Gargaphie (Boiotia)👤 Antiope (Theban)👤 Dirce (w. of Lycos)👤 Zethos👤 the Bull of Dirce👤 Agamemnon👤 Clytaimnestra🌍 Eleusis (Attica)🌍 Mycenae (Argolid)🌍 River Asopos (Boiotia)🌍 the Saronic Gulf🌍 Peparethos (island)🌍 Euripos Strait (Euboia)🌍 Mount Messapion (Boiotia)🌍 Mount Arachnaion (Argolid)🌍 the Mountain of Hermes (Lemnos)🌍 Mount Macistos (Euboia)🌍 Mount Aigaleos (Attica)👤 Iocaste👤 Corinthian Shepherd (name unknown)👤 the Serpent of Teiresias👤 Periboia (Corinthian)👤 Polybos (Corinthian/Sicyonian)🏛️ the House of Cadmos (Thebes)👤 Cadmos (Theban)🌍 Erythrai (Boiotia)🌍 Hysiai (Boiotia)🏛️ the Electran Gates (Thebes)🏺 the Bow of Apollo🌍 Mount Cithairon (Attica/Boiotia)🌍 Athens (Attica)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.9-2.4.10📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.4.4📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.2📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.7📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.6.3-3.6.6📖 Pausanias 9.1.1-9.1.2📖 Pausanias 9.2.3-9.2.4📖 Pausanias 9.3.1-9.3.8📖 Pausanias 2.2.7📖 Pausanias 1.41.3-1.41.6📖 Pausanias 10.5.3-10.5.4📖 Pausanias 9.2.4📖 Euripides, Suppliant Women 754-759📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods 6.1-6.2 MacLeod📖 Lucian, Essays in Portraiture 14📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 86-98📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 2📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 784-830📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 1584-1763📖 Lucian, The Dance 41📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.201-2.271📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.511-3.733📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 24.602📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 281-316📖 Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos 678-725📖 Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos 1110-1185📖 D-Scholia, Odyssey 10.494📖 Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos 1008-1050📖 Euripides, Bacchae 1-63📖 Euripides, Bacchae 215-369📖 Euripides, Bacchae 656-786📖 Euripides, Bacchae 1024-1167📖 Euripides, Bacchae 1168-1328📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.6📖 D-Scholia, Odyssey 11.271
    Mentioned in text
    Apollodoros, LibraryPausaniasEuripides, Suppliant WomenLucian, Dialogues of the Sea-GodsLucian, Essays in PortraitureCallimachus, Hymn to DelosPs-Plutarch, On RiversEuripides, Phoenician WomenLucian, The DanceOvid, MetamorphosesD-Scholia, IliadAeschylus, AgamemnonSophocles, Oidipous TyrannosD-Scholia, OdysseyEuripides, Bacchae
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    AcousilaosEuphorion of ChalcisHomer, OdysseyAndrotion
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Acousilaos fr. 33 Fowler📖 Euphorion of Chalcis fr. 68 Lightfoot📖 Homer, Odyssey 10.490-10.521📖 Androtion FGrHist 324 fr. 62📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.271-11.280
    Depictions
    🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Marinaio VII 15, 2, Pompeii (MANN 111479; PALP r7-i15-p2-space-zprime)🎨 Marble Sculptural Group from the Baths of Caracalla, Rome (MANN 6002)
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