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🌍 Alalcomenai (Boiotia)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11291435" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11291435">📖 Pausanias 9.33.5-9.33.7</span>
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    city in Boiotia
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540619
    Place of birth of
    👤 Alalcomeneus (eponym) autochthon, eponym of Alalcomenai👤 Athena Olympian goddess👤 Odysseus king of Ithaca, leader of the Cephallenian contingent at Troy
    Eponym
    👤 Alalcomeneus (eponym) autochthon, eponym of Alalcomenai👤 Alalcomenia (eponym) daughter of Ogygos, eponym of Alalcomenai
    Related entities
    👤 Athena Olympian goddess👤 Alalcomeneus (eponym) autochthon, eponym of Alalcomenai👤 Alalcomenia (eponym) daughter of Ogygos, eponym of Alalcomenai🌍 the Sanctuary of Athena Itonia at Coroneia (Boiotia)🌍 Alalcomenai (Ithaca) city on Ithaca mentioned in literary sources; perhaps identifiable with the archaeological site on Mt Aetos👤 Anticleia (Ithacan) mother of Odysseus👤 Odysseus king of Ithaca, leader of the Cephallenian contingent at Troy🌍 Ithaca (island) island in the Ionian Sea
    Mentioned by
    📖 Homer, Iliad 4.1-4.19📖 Pausanias 9.33.5📖 Strabo 9.2.36📖 Bacchylides fr. 15a📖 Plutarch, Greek Questions 43
    Mentioned in text
    Homer, IliadPausaniasStraboBacchylidesPlutarch, Greek Questions
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Istros
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Istros BNJ 334 fr. 58
    Reported to have local traditions about
    🌍 Lake Triton unlocatable river, marsh and lake often conceptualised as somewhere in Libya, associated with Athena🌍 River Triton (Boiotia) near Alalcomenai
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Pausanias 9.33.5-9.33.7
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