Athenae (Boeotia)

Athenae or Athenai (Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι) was a town of ancient Boeotia, on the river Triton, and near Lake Copais. Athenae, along with the neighbouring town of Eleusis, was destroyed by an inundation.[1][2]

References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.407. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Pausanias (1918). "24.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 9. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Athenae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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