Cithaeron
Americannoun
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A man arrives from Corinth with the message that Oedipus’s father has died It emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that he was given a baby....
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
In this emergency he consulted Cithaeron, king of Platea, who was famed for his great wisdom and subtlety.
From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
Indeed they could see them pursuing with torches upon the Athens road towards Cithaeron and Druoskephalai or Oakheads.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley
The messenger himself found him on Cithaeron in his infancy, his feet pierced through.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
The mountain Cithaeron was all alive with worshippers, and the cries of the Bacchanals resounded on every side.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
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