Cithaeron or Kithairon (Κιθαιρών, -ῶνος) is a mountain and mountain range about sixteen kilometres (ten miles) long in Central Greece. The range is the...

The Lion of Cithaeron was a lion in Greek mythology which harassed the lands of king Amphitryon and king Thespius or of king Megareus. Some myths say...

Cithaeron praedonius is a species of true spider in the family Cithaeronidae. It is found in North Africa, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, India, and Malaysia...

seven species: Cithaeron contentum Jocqué & Russell-Smith, 2011 – South Africa Cithaeron delimbatus Strand, 1906 – East Africa Cithaeron dippenaarae Bosmans...

to Mount Cithaeron, where they find a shady hollow, which serves as a "natural bridal chamber". When Macris comes to look for Hera, Cithaeron, the tutelary...

Others say that Heracles' armour was, in fact, the hide of the Lion of Cithaeron. According to Alexander of Myndus, Heracles was helped in this labour...

first of these tells the story of a singing contest between the mountains Cithaeron and Helicon. The surviving portion includes the ending of one of the mountain's...

Charaxes cithaeron, the blue-spotted emperor or blue-spotted charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in south-east Africa. The...

The "Contest of Cithaeron and Helicon" (PMG 654) is a fragment of a poem by Corinna. Preserved on a second-century AD papyrus discovered at Hermopolis...

her away, where Mt. Cithaeron "afforded them a shady recess." When Macris came to look for her ward, the mountain-god Cithaeron drove her away, saying...

is not true. He is the man who found Oedipus as a baby in the pass of Cithaeron and gave him to King Polybus to raise. He reveals, furthermore that the...

"echo", from ἦχος (ēchos), "sound") was an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and often visited them on...

aunts, into an ecstatic frenzy, sending them dancing and hunting on Mount Cithaeron, much to the horror of the young Pentheus, king of Thebes who also is...

Bacchae (c. 405 BC), a messenger, describing the Bacchic revelries on mount Cithaeron, associates Iacchus with Bromius, another of the names of Dionysus, saying...

in a plain, between Lake Yliki (ancient Hylica) to the north, and the Cithaeron mountains, which divide Boeotia from Attica, to the south. Its elevation...

Lacedaemon by Zeus • Alcyone Mt. Cithaeron, Boeotia mother of Hyperes and Anthas by Poseidon • Celaeno Mt. Cithaeron, Boeotia or Euboea mother of Lycus...

naturally divided to the north from Boeotia by the 10 mi (16 km) long Cithaeron and Parnes mountain ranges. To the west of Eleusis, the Greek mainland...

appeared in the myth of Heracles, where he helped free it from the Lion of Cithaeron. As a reward, he was granted a night with each of the fifty daughters...

Mount Cithaeron. Pentheus, wishing to prevent or stop these riotous proceedings, was persuaded by a disguised Dionysus to go himself to Cithaeron, but...

sulfuric waters. According to one myth, she fell in love with a mortal, Cithaeron, but was spurned; in her anger she formed a poisonous snake from her hair...

in India. Females can be distinguished from those of its sister genus, Cithaeron, by the arrangement of cylindrical gland spigots on the posterior median...

where Mount Cithaeron, in the words of Plutarch, "afforded them a shady recess". When Macris came looking for her ward, the mountain-god Cithaeron drove her...

Hymn v. Callimachus gives no site: a glen in the foothills of Mount Cithaeron near Boeotian Orchomenus, is the site according to Euripides, Bacchae...

Metamorphoses, and tells the story of Echo, a mountain nymph from Mount Cithaeron, and Narcissus, a hunter from a Thespiae in Boeotia, known for his many...

composed by Corinna pertaining to a contest between Mount Helicon and Mount Cithaeron). The famous Greek dish klephtiko (or kleftiko), a dish entailing slow-cooked...

palace of Thespius, king of Thespiae, who wished him to kill the Lion of Cithaeron. As a reward, the king offered him the chance to perform sexual intercourse...

women", left their homes to live in the wilds of the nearby mountain Cithaeron. When they discovered Pentheus spying on them, dressed as a maenad, they...

back, she gave birth to the twins and was forced to expose them on Mount Cithaeron. Lycus gave her to his wife, Dirce, who treated her very cruelly for many...

Oenoe road and then marched through Boeotia across the passes of Mount Cithaeron, and arrived near Plataea. Under the guidance of their commanding general...

told by the Roman Ovid having accidentally seen Diana (Artemis) on Mount Cithaeron while she was bathing, he was changed by her into a stag, and pursued...