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🌍 Eleutherai (Attica/Boiotia)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11301102" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11301102">📖 Diodoros, Library 3.66.1-3.66.6</span>
  • Information
    city on Boiotia - Attica border
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540756
    Cult site of
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian)👤 Melanthos (Athenian)
    Place of birth of
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian)👤 Amphion (Theban)👤 Zethos
    Founded by
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian)
    Derives etymology from
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian)
    Relics preserved on site
    🏛️ the Tombs of the Fighters with the Seven against Thebes (Eleutherai)
    Encompasses
    🏛️ the Cave of Amphion and Zethos (Eleutherai) 🏛️ the Temple of Dionysos Melanthides (Eleutherai?)
    Related Entities
    👤 Amphion (Theban)👤 Antiope (Theban)👤 Zethos👤 Mnemosyne👤 Dionysos (Olympian)👤 Pegasos (Attic)🌍 the Sanctuary of Dionysos at Athens🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi🌍 Sicyon (Argolid)🌍 Thebes (Boiotia)👤 Lamedon👤 Theseus🏛️ the Tombs of the Fighters with the Seven against Thebes (Eleutherai)🌍 Oinoe (Attica/Boiotia)👤 Eleuther👤 Melanthos (Athenian)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.5📖 Hesiod, Theogony 53-62📖 Pausanias 1.2.5📖 Pausanias 2.6.1-2.6.4📖 Plutarch, Theseus 29.4-29.5📖 Diodoros, Library 3.66.1-3.66.6📖 Diodoros, Library 4.2.1-4.2.6📖 Strabo 8.6.16📖 Callimachus, Hecale fr. 85 Hollis
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, LibraryHesiod, TheogonyPausaniasPlutarch, TheseusDiodoros, LibraryStraboCallimachus, Hecale
    Depictions
    🌍 Athens (Attica)
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Diodoros, Library 3.66.1-3.66.6
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