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In Euboea the festival of the Great Daedala, sacred to Hera, was celebrated on a sixty-year cycle.
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Euboea and festival
The sacrificial tripod which Hesiod won at a contest in Chalcis in Euboea was still on view at Helicon in Pausanias ' day: the presence of Homer at the festival Hesiod mentions in Works and Days ( 650-59 ) was a later interpolation.
Euboea and sacred
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.
Euboea and Hera
** Planets: Troy, Leonis, the Ouranos asteroid belt, Virgon ( moon: Hibernia ), the gas giant Hera ( 29 moons, including Iris and Euboea ), and Pallas.
Macris was expelled from Euboea by Hera as punishment.
Euboea and was
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.
Euboea and Megara both revolted, and while the former was restored to its status as a tributary ally, the latter was a permanent loss.
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.
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.
Euboea and on
* August – The Persians achieve a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea.
With the remainder of his troops, Antiochus flees to Chalcis on Euboea and from there he retreats by sea to Ephesus.
* The city of Eretria on the island of Euboea successfully rebels against the rule of Athens and Euboea is declared independent.
The Athenian statesman and general, Phocion's tactical skills save an Athenian force sent to fight the supporters of Philip II on Euboea.
He secures his position in Greece by keeping Macedonian occupation forces in the cities of Corinth, Chalcis on the island of Euboea, and Demetrias in Thessaly, the three " shackles " of Hellas.
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.
Satellite picture showing central and south-eastern Euboea on the right, and the Greek mainland ( Attica and Boeotia ) on the left.
The island belongs to Euboea Prefecture which also includes two municipalities on the mainland, Anthidona and Avlida, as well as the island municipality of Skyros.
He was born in Euboea ( Herodotus, Strabo ) or, according to others, in Egypt, on the river Nile, after the long wanderings of his mother.
* Molossus, Athenian commander on Euboea ~ 350 BC
** Opuntian Locris, on the coast of mainland Greece opposite northwest Euboea, around Opus
First, a Peloponnesian fleet, ostensibly dispatched to assist anti-Athenian forces on Euboea, was moving slowly up the coast of the Peloponnese ; Theramenes charged that this fleet was planning to seize the fortifications on Eetioneia, in collaboration with the extremists.
Several days later, the Peloponnesian fleet approached Piraeus, but, finding the fortifications destroyed and the port well defended, they sailed on to Euboea.
After the Athenian victory at Abydos, he took thirty triremes to attack the rebels on Euboea, who were building a causeway to Boeotia to provide land access to their island.
The Ionic dialect was also spoken on islands across the central Aegean and on the large island of Euboea north of Athens.
Euboea and .
One chain extends across the sea to Chios, another extends across Euboea to Samos, and a third extends across the Peloponnese and Crete to Rhodes, dividing the Aegean from the Mediterranean.
Greeks from Euboea left their pottery at Amathus from the tenth century BC.
In the first ten years of the league's existence, Cimon / Kimon forced Karystos in Euboea to join the league, conquered the island of Skyros and sent Athenian colonists there.
Reaching Euboea in mid-summer after a successful campaign in the Aegean, the Persians proceeded to besiege and capture Eretria.
After island-hopping across the Aegean, including successfully attacking Naxos, the Persian task force arrived off Euboea in mid summer.
Ancient epichoric variants of the Greek alphabet from Euboea, Ionia, Athens and Ancient Corinth | Corinth comparing to modern Greek.
Hesiod mentions a poetry contest at Chalcis in Euboea where the sons of one Amphidamas awarded him a tripod ( Works and Days ll. 654 – 662 ).
Additionally, Nauplius, in revenge for the murder of his son Palamedes, set up false lights in Cape Caphereus ( also known today as Cavo D ' Oro, in Euboea ) and many were shipwrecked.
* 472 BC: Carystus in Euboea is forced to join the Delian League.
However, he escapes to Chalcis in Euboea.
He also enjoyed some success in his campaigns in Euboea and the Peloponnese.
734 BC: Naxus in Sicily founded as a colony of Chalcis in Euboea.
* 556 BC — Pisistratus is exiled from Athens to Euboea.
* Late 10th century BC: Centaur, from Lefkandi, Euboea is made.
Aegeus becomes King of Athens, Nisos reigns in Megara, Lykos in Euboea and Pallas in southern Attica.
During the 8th century BC, people from Euboea in Greece known as Cumaeans began to establish colonies in the area roughly around the modern day province of Naples.
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