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Surroundings:

temple of ArtemisChalkis ancient AgoraChalkis ancient AgoraArma, Mycenaean fortificationTower of Tanagra

Location:

  • Greece, Ritsóna
  • geo:38.415558,23.545834
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25259

Annotations

The ancient city of Mykalessos in Boeotia was inhabited from the first half of III millenium BC. Mykalessos is first mentioned by Homer1.As a town of Boeotian League Mykalessos flourished in the VI and V centuries. BC, In 413 BC town was destructed and the massacre of its inhabitants by of Thracian mercenaries hired by Athens. Pausanias: Adjoining are the ruins of the cities Harma (Chariot) and Mycalessus. [..]    Both peoples agree that Mycalessus was so named because the cow lowed (emykesato) here that was guiding Cadmus and his host to Thebes. How Mycalessus was laid waste I have related in that part of my history that deals with the Athenians. On the way to the coast of Mycalessus is a sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter. They say that each night it is shut up and opened again by Heracles, and that Heracles is one of what are called the Idaean Dactyls. Here is shown the following marvel. Before the feet of the image they place all the fruits of autumn, and these remain fresh throughout all the year. At this place the Euripus separates Euboea from Boeotia. On the right is the sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter3

See:

  1. Homerus, Ilias II.480 [The Iliad of Homer. Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Samuel Butler. Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London. New York and Bombay. 1898 (?)]
  2. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918
  3. http://www.theoi.com/Cult/DemeterTitles.html
  4. sv. Mykalessos in: Mała Encyklopedia Kultury Antycznej, Warszawa 1968.

References

  1. Arkesilaos, Prothoenor, and Klonios were leaders of the Boeotians. These were they that dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis, and who held Schoinos, Skolos, and the highlands of Eteonos, with Thespeia, Graia, and the fair city of Mykalessos
  2. Arkesilaos, Prothoenor, and Klonios were leaders of the Boeotians. These were they that dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis, and who held Schoinos, Skolos, and the highlands of Eteonos, with Thespeia, Graia, and the fair city of Mykalessos
  3. Pausanias, Description of Greece IX.19.4-6


Nearby

Fortlet (1 km)

Fortlet

Defensive shaft (2 km)

Defensive shaft

Aniporitis (4 km)

Aniporitis


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