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
Oedipus begs him to let him live on Cithaeron, beseeching him to look after his two daughters whose birth is so stained that no man can ever wed them.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
Exit to the palace, while Teiresias and Cadmus depart, in horror at his impiety, in the direction of Cithaeron.
From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Moulton, Richard Green
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 Berens, E.M.
On the northern slope of Cithaeron, the mountain range which divides Attica from Boeotia, lies the little town of Plataea.
From Stories from Thucydides by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
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