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Troezen

American  
[tree-zuhn] / ˈtri zən /

noun

  1. (in ancient geography) a town in E Peloponnesus near the coast of the Saronic Gulf, regarded in mythology as the birthplace of Theseus.


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Theseus prays to his father, the sea god Poseidon, to destroy Hippolytus, meanwhile banishing his son from Troezen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Often and often she would climb the mountain above Troezen, and sit there all day, looking out over the blue waters and the purple hills of AEgina to the dim, distant shore beyond.

From Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin

Rhodes, and some Cretan towns, traced descent from Argos; Cnidus from Argos and Sparta; the rest of Asiatic Doris from Epidaurus or Troezen in Argolis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

For at that very time our king was sojourning at Troezen on the other side of the Saronic Sea, and he knew nothing of the young prince's death.

From Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin

In this manner he conducted him to the upper-world, through an opening near Troezen in Argolia.

From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens

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