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Lelex (France) (search for this): book 1, chapter 39
Nisa (search for this): book 1, chapter 39
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Argive (Greece) (search for this): book 1, chapter 39
There is another road from Eleusis, which leads to Megara. As you go along this road you come to a well called Anthium (Flowery Well). Pamphos in his poems describes how Demeter in the likeness of an old woman sat at this well after the rape of her daughter, how the daughters of Celeus thence took her as an Argive woman to their mother, and how Metaneira thereupon entrusted to her the rearing of her son.
A little farther on from the well is a sanctuary of Metaneira, and after it are graves of those who went against Thebes. For Creon, who at that time ruled in Thebes as guardian of Laodamas the son of Eteocles, refused to allow the relatives to take up and bury their dead. But Adrastus having supplicated Theseus, the Athenians fought with the Boeotians, and Theseus being victorious in the fight carried the dead to the Eleusinian territory and buried them here. The Thebans, however, say that they voluntarily gave up the dead for burial and deny that they engaged in battle.
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Thebes (Greece) (search for this): book 1, chapter 39
Megara (Greece) (search for this): book 1, chapter 39
There is another road from Eleusis, which leads to Megara. As you go along this road you come to a well called Anthium (Flowery Well). Pamphos in his poems describes how Demeter in the likeness of a up the rule over the Athenians to Aegeus, the eldest of all the family, was himself made king of Megara and of the territory as far as Corinth. Even at the present day the port of the Megarians is ca n expedition against Athens. Having accomplished nothing brilliant, on their way home they took Megara from the Athenians, and gave it as a dwelling-place to such of the Corinthians and of their othe en they say that sanctuaries of Demeter were first made by them, and then that men used the name Megara (Chambers). This is their history according to the Megarians themselves. But the Boeotians decla war against Minos; that falling in the battle he was buried on the spot, and the city was named Megara from him, having previously been called Nisa.
In the twelfth generation after Car the son of Ph
Corinth (Greece) (search for this): book 1, chapter 39
Megaris (Greece) (search for this): book 1, chapter 39
Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 1, chapter 39
Egypt (Egypt) (search for this): book 1, chapter 39