• Scamander /skəˈmændər/ or Skamandros (Ancient Greek: Σκάμανδρος) was a king in Boeotia. The meaning of the name is "left(-handed) man". The second element...
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    (traditionally location of his death) Pelopidas Pindar Plutarch Scamander of Boeotia Boeotian helmet Boeotian shield List of settlements in Boeotia Graïke "Αποτελέσματα...
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  • well as a character in its adaptations Scamander of Boeotia, a mythical Greek king Skamander, a Polish group of experimental poets This disambiguation...
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  • Peripatetic Scamander Scamander of Boeotia Scamandrius Scambonidae Scaphe Scaphism Schedius Scheria Schoeneus Schoenus (Boeotia) Scholarch School of Abdera...
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  • Glaucia (category Children of Potamoi)
    of Eleon, the father of Deimachus. She there gave birth to a son, whom she called Scamander, and who afterwards obtained a tract of land in Boeotia,...
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    of Pindus. He was the father of Daphne and Stilbe, love interests of the god Apollo. Scamander, who fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan...
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  • name of "the Maidens." Scamander obtained a tract of land in Boeotia across which flowed two rivers. He named one of the rivers Glaucia in honor of his...
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    hydriads, are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are...
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    Mnemosyne (category Children of Gaia)
    Helicon in Boeotia, and in the cult of Asclepius. There was a statue of Mnemosyne in the shrine of Dionysos at Athens, alongside the statues of the Muses...
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    of Boeotia horseracing was a part of the athletic games in honour of the god. Poseidon was considered a symbol of unity. The Panionia the festival of...
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    This is a list of mythological characters who appear in narratives concerning the Trojan War. * See Catalogue of Ships ** See Trojan Battle Order This...
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  • descendants of Inachus Peneus, river god of Thessaly flowing from the foot of Pindus; father of Daphne and Stilbe Scamander, who fought on the side of the Trojans...
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    personifications of nature; they are typically tied to a specific place, landform, or tree, and are usually depicted as maidens. Because of their association...
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  • "Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis, XII. SAGARIS". "Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis, XIII. SCAMANDER". "Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis, XIV. TANAIS". "Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis...
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    Persephone (category Residents of the Greek underworld)
    to the mysteries of Andania in Messene. Boeotia Thebes: purportedly granted to her by Zeus in return for a favor. As well, the cults of Demeter and Kore...
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    of Arms of City of Kutaisi, the ancient capital city of Colchis. Athamas the founder of Thessaly, but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia (a...
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  • Pleiades. She was also the protectress of sailing. In some accounts, when Pleione once was travelling through Boeotia with her daughters, Orion who was accompanying...
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    be identified with the nymph "Plataia" (broad one) in Plataea of Boeotia as the spouse of Zeus. Homer uses the form "eureia chthon" (broad earth). Hesiod...
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  • Praxidice (category Religion in ancient Boeotia)
    of Praxidice and Soter, sisters to Ktesios. Alalcomenia, Thelxionoea and Aulis, daughters of the early Boeotian king Ogyges. At Haliartos in Boeotia,...
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    temple of "Artemis Heurippa". Hymnia, at Orchomenos in Boeotia. She was a goddess of dance and songs, especially of female choruses. The priestesses of Artemis...
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    - Scamander of Mytilene 77th Olympiad 472 BC - Dandes of Argos 78th Olympiad 468 BC - Parmenides of Poseidonia 79th Olympiad 464 BC - Xenophon of Corinth...
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    preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone. Significantly...
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    (first attested in the Epitaph of Adonis (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Ἀδώνιδος) of Bion of Smyrna, fl. c. 100 BCE) . The number of Oreads includes but is not limited...
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    detail of Circe's handloom, at which the men approaching her palace could hear her singing sweetly as she worked. In the 5th-century skyphos from Boeotia an...
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  • Hecate (redirect from Queen of Ghosts)
    Minor a sacrifice of a black female puppy was made to Hecate as "the wayside goddess", and Plutarch's observation that in Boeotia dogs were killed in...
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    strife and founded the city of Thebes. In reality, Thebes came to dominate Boeotia's great and fertile plain, which in both history and myth was a battleground...
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    offered sacrifice to them, and in Coronea, a town in Boeotia. It is also known that the citizens of Laciadae in Attica had erected an altar for Zephyrus...
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    Heracles (redirect from Glory of Hera)
    During the course of his life, Heracles married four times. Heracles waged a victorious war against the kingdom of Orchomenus in Boeotia and married his...
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    Hera (category Children of Cronus)
    Kandara of Asia-Minor. Κιθαιρωνία (Κithairōnia) 'of the mountain Kithairon' in Boeotia, in relation with her fest Daedala. Λιμανία (Limanìa) ' of the harbour'...
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    Dionysus (redirect from God of Wine)
    etymology are doubtful. Later variants include Dionūsos and Diōnūsos in Boeotia; Dien(n)ūsos in Thessaly; Deonūsos and Deunūsos in Ionia; and Dinnūsos...
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