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    Mount Oeta (/ˈɛtə/; Greek: Οίτη, polytonic Οἴτη, Oiti, also transcribed as Oite) is a mountain in Central Greece. A southeastern offshoot of the Pindus...
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  • Oeta or OETA may refer to: Mount Oeta in Greece An ancient city, said to have been founded by Amphissus, son of Apollo and Dryope Staphylus oeta, a butterfly...
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    him). Heracles then uproots several trees and builds a funeral pyre on Mount Oeta, which Poeas, father of Philoctetes, lights. As his body burns, only his...
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    living on and around Mount Oeta, in Central Greece. The Oeteans occupied the region of Oetaea or Oitaia (Οἰταῖα), encompassing Mount Oeta and its northern...
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    Hercules Oetaeus (Hercules on Mount Oeta) is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1996 lines of verse which survived as one of Lucius...
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    The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (OETA) was a joint British, French and Arab military administration over Levantine provinces – which had been...
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  • Dryopes (category Mount Oeta)
    According to Herodotus, their earliest abode is said to have been on Mount Oeta in Central Greece and its adjacent valleys, in the district called after...
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    his commentaries on Virgil's Eclogues, mentions that Hesperus inhabited Mount Oeta in Thessaly and that there he had loved the young Hymenaeus, son of Dionysus...
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    tended the flocks of her father on Mount Oeta, she became the playmate of the hamadryads of the woods on Mount Oeta. The nymphs taught her to sing hymns...
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    Kallidromo (redirect from Mount Kallidromo)
    elevation is 1,399 m. The Kallidromo lies south of the Malian Gulf, east of Mount Oeta and north of the Cephissus valley. The strategic site of Thermopylae lies...
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    Virgil's Eclogues, mentions that Hesperus, the Evening Star, inhabited Mount Oeta in Thessaly and that there he had loved the young Hymenaeus, son of Apollo...
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    Phocis. It is the original homeland of the Dorian Greeks. It lies between Mounts Oeta and Parnassus, and consists of the valley of the river Pindus (Πίνδος)...
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    Pyre of Heracles (redirect from Pyra (Oeta))
    Ἡρακλέους Πυρά) are the ruins of a Doric temple from the 3rd century BCE on Mount Oeta, on the site where the ancient Greek mythological hero Heracles self-immolated...
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    name for Thessaly. The Plain of Thessaly, which lies between Mount Oeta/Othrys and Mount Olympus, was the site of the battle between the Titans and the...
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    Gorgopotamos (category Mount Oeta)
    Gorgopotamos (Greek: Γοργοπόταμος) is a village and a former municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the...
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  • to his flesh, corroding it. He eventually threw himself onto a pyre on Mount Oeta in extreme agony and burned to death. Numerous tales of poison khilats...
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  • neighborhood of Mount Oeta. The people, original inhabitants of the country from the valley of the Spercheius and Thermopylae, as far as Mount Parnassus. They...
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    the northeast, the Tymfristos in the west, the Vardousia in the southwest, Oeta in the south and the Kallidromo in the southeast. "Phthiotis" means "the...
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  • on the eastern confines of ancient Aetolia, on one of the heights of Mount Oeta, and on the road from the valley of the Spercheus to Aetolia. It was by...
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    northern slope of Mount Oeta; the name is probably derived from a corruption of hypo Oita (ὑπὸ Οἴτα, meaning "near the Mount Oeta"). The ancient city...
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    The Hellenic Heracles also died on a pyre, but the event was located on Mount Oeta in Trachis. A similar tradition is recorded by Dio Chrysostom (Or. 33...
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  • Oetaea, included Mount Oeta. Phoceans - They lived in Phocis. Delphi sanctuary and oracle was in their land (on the southern slopes of Mount Parnassus). Dorians...
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  • in the city of Ōita in the Ecclesiastical province of Nagasaki, Japan Mount Oeta (also "Oita" or "Oiti"), a mountain in Central Greece Oita Junior College...
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  • Asopus. Asopos (Thessaly) or Trachean Asopus, a river originating on Mount Oeta in Thessaly and emptying into the Malian Gulf near Thermopylae, mentioned...
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  • located in Laconia or Crete. He is also said to be "of Oeta", which seems to be a reference to Mount Oeta; but the reference is sometimes read as "Etea" instead...
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  • Siderokastron (category Mount Oeta)
    settlement on Mount Oeta in Central Greece. Siderokastron was first mentioned in the 13th century. Some scholars have identified it with a place on Mount Knemis...
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  • being at the base of the mountain where Heracles is said to have died (Mount Oeta) as well as being the place where the descendants of Heracles settled...
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    west from Mount Oeta round to Mount Tymphristos, then north round to the headwaters of Spercheios, and then east to the western spur of Mount Othrys. The...
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    been consulted and indicated that the hero is dead and the summits of Mount Oeta are ablaze with fire (Arioso:I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast)...
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    Pavliani (category Mount Oeta)
    Pavliani (Greek: Παύλιανη) is a village on Mount Oeta, and a former community in Phthiotis, Greece. It is divided into two settlements, Pavliani proper...
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