Arne (Boeotia)

38°28′58″N 22°56′00″E Arne (Ancient Greek: Ἄρνη) was a town of ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer,[1] and probably founded by the Boeotians after their expulsion from ancient Thessaly. Pausanias identified this Boeotian Arne with Chaeroneia,[2] Strabo with Acraephium;[3] and others again supposed that it had been swallowed up by the waters of the Lake Copais.[4] Modern scholars locate Arne with the site of archaeological site of Magoula Balomenou.[5][6] Alternately, Arne may be linked to the ancient citadel of Gla, whose Mycenaean name has been lost, though this is by no mean uncontested.[7][8]

References

1. Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.507.
2. Pausanias (1918). "40.5". Description of Greece. Vol. 9. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
3. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p. 413. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
4. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. i. p.59, ix. p. 413. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
5. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
6. "Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire". Lund University. Archived from the original on August 28, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
7. Ghembaza, Therese; Windell, David (20 August 2021). "The Mysteries of Lake Copais and the Island Fortress of Gla". Open Journal for Studies in History. 4 (1): 28. ISSN 2620-066X. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
8. Mylonas, George E. (1966). Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 10.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Arne". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.