Erythrae (Boeotia)

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For other uses, see Erythrae (disambiguation).

Erythrae or Erythrai (Ancient Greek: Ἐρυθραί) was a town in ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer among the Boeotians ruled by Thersander in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.[1] It lay a little south of the Asopus, at the foot of Mount Cithaeron.[2] The camp of Mardonius extended along the Asopus from Erythrae and past Hysiae to the territory of Plataea.[3] Erythrae is frequently mentioned by other authorities in connection with Hysiae.[4][5] Apollodorus records the town as Erythra (Ἐρυθρά).[6] It was in ruins in the time of Pausanias (second century).[7]

The site of Erythrae is at a place called Darimari in the current town of Erythres.[8][9]

Attribution

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

References

1. Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.499.
2. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.404. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
3. Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 9.15, 25.
4. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 3.24.
5. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
6. Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 5.4.49.
7. Pausanias (1918). "2.1". 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.
8. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
9. 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.