KREUSA
(Livadhostro) Boiotia, Greece.
In
antiquity, the market town for Thespiae. The site is on
the N slope of Mt. Korombili, near the modern town
of Livadhostro. The harbor, protected from the violent
local storms by a mole in ancient times, had no importance of its own in the Classical period, but served
as a port for Thebes, and maintained close relations with
Corinth. During the war against Antiochos, the Romans
used the town as a base of operations. Pausanias saw
nothing there worth reporting; the site is now marked
by the remains of walls with towers, and a gate 3 m
wide. A bronze statue known as the Livadhostro Poseidon, now in the National Museum, was found in the sea
off nearby Haghios Vasilios at the end of the 19th c.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Paus. 9.32.1-2;
Livy 36.21.5, 44.1.4;
Ptol. 3.14.5; W. M. Leake,
Nor. Gr. (1835) II 406, 505,
520.
M. H. MC ALLISTER
