Aegeus becomes King of Athens, Nisos reigns in Megara, Lykos in Euboea and Pallas in southern Attica.

Aegeus becomes King of Athens, Nisos reigns in Megara, Lykos in Euboea and Pallas in southern Attica.

* Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse conquers the nearby Sicilian cities of Euboea and Megara Hyblaea, selling their common people into slavery and bringing their oligarchs to Syracuse.

* Athens arranges an alliance with Euboea, Megara, Achaea, Corinth, Acarnania and some other states in the Peloponnesus.

He continued this strategy as he conquered nearby Euboea and Megara Hyblaea ( 483 BC ), forcibly removing the aristocracy from each city and placing the rest of the population in slavery.

Lines 29 – 52 seem to portray the political situation in Megara before the rise of the tyrant Theagenes, about the latter half of the seventh century, but lines 891 – 95 describe a war in Euboea in the second quarter of the sixth century, and lines 773 – 82 seem to refer to the Persian invasion of mainland Greece in the reign of Xerxes, at the end of the first quarter of the fifth century.

Modern scholars in general opt for a birthplace in mainland Greek Megara though a suitable context for the poems could be found just about anywhere in archaic Greece and there are options for mix-and-match, such as a birth in mainland Megara and then migration to Sicilian Megara ( lines 1197 – 1201 mention dispossession / exile and lines 783 – 88 journeys to Sicily, Euboea and Sparta ).

The defeat led to revolts on Euboea and in Megara, which in turn led to further conflict with Sparta, contributing to the Peloponnesian War.

He was exiled sometime between 446 BC and 444 BC, charged by the Spartans with taking a bribe, probably from Pericles ( noted as " 10 talents necessary expenses " in Athens ' funds ), to withdraw from the plain of Eleusis in Attica after leading the Peloponnesian forces there following the revolts of Euboea and Megara from the Athenian empire.

Meanwhile, other writers from the 4th century onwards claimed to discover them in Boeotia, west Acarnania ( Leucas ), and later again in Thessaly, Euboea, Megara, Lacedaemon and Messenia.

After leaving Heraclea, Attalus and Sulpicius sacked both Oreus, on the northern coast of Euboea and Opus, the chief city of eastern Locris.

Furthermore, the Persians had enough ships to attempt to both attack the Straits of Artemisium, and sail around Euboea.

* Achaea achieves its independence from Athens, while Euboea, crucial to Athenian control of the sea and food supplies, revolts against Athens.

Other coastal regions of Greece besides Euboea were once again full participants in the commercial and cultural exchanges of the eastern and central Mediterranean, while communities developed which were governed by an elite group of aristocrats rather than by the single basileus or chieftain of earlier periods.

Styra () is a village and a former municipality on the island Euboea, Greece.

Dystos ( ; Latin: Dystus ) is the name of a lake, village and former municipality in Euboea, Greece.

Marmari (, Katharevousa: Μαρμάριον ) is a village and a former municipality in Euboea, Greece, in the southeastern end of the island.

As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the former Euboea Prefecture () was transformed into a regional unit within the Central Greece region, without any change in boundaries.

Nea Artaki ( Greek: Νέα Αρτάκη ) is a town and a former municipality on the island Euboea, Greece.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.

In Euboea the festival of the Great Daedala, sacred to Hera, was celebrated on a sixty-year cycle.

Her archaic association was primarily with cattle, as a Cow Goddess, who was especially venerated in " cattle-rich " Euboea.

Unlike their father, Hesiod was averse to sea travel but he once crossed the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea to participate in funeral celebrations for one Athamas of Chalcis, where he won a tripod in a singing competition.

However around 750 BC, or a little later, there was a migration of sea-going merchants from his original home in Cyme in Asia Minor to Cumae in Campania ( a colony they shared with Euboeans ), and possibly his move west had something to do with that, since Euboea is not far from Boetia, where he eventually established himself and his family.

In the town of Aegae in Euboea, he was known as Poseidon Aegaeus and had a magnificent temple upon a hill.

According to a scholiast, commenting on the passage in Argonautica, the island was first of all called Macris after the nurse of Dionysus who fled there from Euboea.

** Achaeus of Eretria, a Greek tragedian, was born in the town of Eretria in the island of Euboea

Hostilities with Athens did not yet take place, but Athens was threatened by the Macedonian party which Philip's gold created in Euboea.

Shortly after this, following the revolt of Euboea, the government of the 400 at Athens was overthrown and replaced by a broader oligarchy, which would eventually give way to democracy.

It was fought between the important poleis ( city-states ) of Chalcis and Eretria over the fertile Lelantine plain of Euboea.

Anius was born either on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, or on Euboea, after the box in which his mother had been placed by Staphylus when he had discovered her pregnancy was washed ashore there.

When a genealogy was applied to him, Marsyas was the son of Olympus ( son of Heracles and Euboea, daughter of Thespius ), or of Oeagrus, or of Hyagnis.

In Greek mythology, the Cercopes (, plural of Κέρκωψ, from κέρκος ( n .) kerkos " tail ") were mischievous forest creatures who lived in Thermopylae or on Euboea but roamed the world and might turn up anywhere mischief was afoot.

Like most of the Greek islands, Euboea was originally known under other names in ancient times, such as Macris and Doliche from its shape, Ellopia and Abantis from the tribes inhabiting it.

The latter, however, did nothing to help the city, its expeditions held back by a revolt in Euboea ( probably paid by Philip's gold ).

* The Athenian help to its cities in Macedonia is diverted by a revolt in Euboea which Philip II of Macedon has fomented.

The two brothers fled from Euboea after they murdered King Phlegyas, settling in Hyria and then moving to Thebes, because they were friends with Pentheus, its king.

Its general direction is from northwest to southeast, and it is traversed throughout its length by a mountain range, which forms part of the chain that bounds Thessaly on the east, and is continued south of Euboea in the lofty islands of Andros, Tinos and Mykonos.

The history of the island of Euboea is largely that of its two principal cities, Chalcis and Eretria.

Euboea was an important source of grain and cattle, and controlling the island meant Athens could prevent invasion and better protect its trade routes from piracy.

During his reign his kingdom extended to Euboea, Magnesia, Thessaly and its environs, excluding Dolopia and possibly Peparethos and Phthiotic Achaia.

In its day, the original range of the spoken Attic dialect included Attica, Euboea, some of the central Cyclades islands, and northern Aegean coastal areas of Thrace ( i. e. Chalcidice ).

Chalcis or Chalkida (; Modern Greek: Χαλκίδα, Ancient Greek / Katharevousa: Χαλκίς ), the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Evripos at its narrowest point.

With the help of these allies, Chalcis engaged the rival league of its neighbour Eretria in the so-called Lelantine War, by which it acquired the best agricultural district of Euboea and became the chief city of the island.

The mountain offers panoramic views of the mountains northeast of Parnitha, Penteli to the east, the Ymittos to the southeast, the Aigaleo to the south and another to the west ; from its summit, one can also see the Thriasian Plain, the Saronic Gulf including the islands of Salamina, Aigina and the North, the South Euboean Gulfs and island of Euboea, and most of central and northern Greater Athens.

Its panorama offers a views of the valley, the mountains of western Magnesia, Mount Olympus, the plain of Thessaly and its nearby mountains, Mavrovouni, Euboea, Central Greece and the northern Sporades islands.

The mountains are situated to the north and northeast ; Thrakomakedones is located on a road linking Varympompi and the mountain including its telepherique ( cable car ), SE of Thiva, S of Euboea and Oropos, NW of Kifissia and GR-1 / E75, N of Athens, and N of the Attiki Odos ( number 6 ).