Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . e objects outsidethe gate Neitae. Here, between the gate and theriver Dirce, were the tomb of Menoeceus, the son ofCreon, and a monument marking the spot where thetwo sons of Oedipus slew each other. The whole ofthis locality was called the Syrma (2ipM) of Anti-gone, because, being unable to carry the dead bodyof her brother Polynices, she dragged it to the fune-nal pile of Eteocles. On the opposite side of theDirce were the ruins of the house of Pindar, and atemple of Dindymene (ix. 25. §§ 1—3). appears to have returned to the gate Neit
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . e objects outsidethe gate Neitae. Here, between the gate and theriver Dirce, were the tomb of Menoeceus, the son ofCreon, and a monument marking the spot where thetwo sons of Oedipus slew each other. The whole ofthis locality was called the Syrma (2ipM) of Anti-gone, because, being unable to carry the dead bodyof her brother Polynices, she dragged it to the fune-nal pile of Eteocles. On the opposite side of theDirce were the ruins of the house of Pindar, and atemple of Dindymene (ix. 25. §§ 1—3). appears to have returned to the gate Neitae and THEBAE PHTHIOTIDES. followed the road which ran from this gate to On-chestus. He first mentions a temple of Themis, thentemples of the Fates and of Zeus Agoraeus, and, alittle further, a statue of Hercules, surnamed Rhino-colustes, because he here cut off the noses of thelieralds of Orchomenus. Twenty-five stadia beyond?<vas the grove of Denieter Cabeiria and Persephone,and 7 stadia further a temple of the Cabeiri, to the. COIN OF THEBES. right of which was the Teneric plain, and to theleft a road which at the end of 50 stadia conductedto Thespiae (ix. 25. § 5, ix. 26. §§ 1, 6). (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 218, seq., p. 573, seq.; Ulrichs, Topographie von Thehen,in Ahknndl. der Bayer. Akad. p. 413, seq. 1841 ;Unger, Thebana Paradoxa, 1839 ; Forchhammer,Tiipogiaphia Thebarum Heptapylarum, Kiliae,1854.) THEBAE CORSICAE. [Corseia, No. 2.]THEBAE PHTHIOTIDES or PHTHIAE (0^-eat al *0ic6T(5ey, Polyb. v. 99; Strab. ix. p. 433;Thebae Phthiae, Liv. xxxii. 33), an important townof Phthiotis in Thessaly, was situated in the north-eastern corner of this district, near the sea, and atthe distance of 300 stadia from Larissa. ( c.) It is not mentioned in the Iliad, but it was ata later time the most important maritime city inThessaly, till the foundation of Demetrias, by Deme-trius Poliorcetes, about b. c. 290. ( Thebas Phthiasiinum maritimum emporium
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