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
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 Crawley, Richard
Cithaeron, the frontier range between Boeotia and Attica.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
As Pentheus begins to threaten, Dionysus advises him first to hear the messenger even now entering from Cithaeron.
From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Moulton, Richard Green
The King in amazement sees his prisoner standing free before him and becomes furiously angry on hearing that his mother has joined a new revel on Mount Cithaeron.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
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