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
Timber was brought from Cithaeron, and with this they set up two stout buttresses of cross-beams, at right angles to the town-wall, to serve as a support on either side of the mound.
From Stories from Thucydides by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
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)
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.
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