Triton River

The Triton River in Boeotia, Greece ran into Lake Copais. The towns of Athenae and Eleusis were located on the river and were both destroyed in an inundation.[1][2]

A temple to Athena was located on the river in the town of Alalcomenae.[3]

Notes

  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.
  3. Pausanias (1918). "3.4". 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., 9.33.5, et seq.
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