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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
e with great probability that Heyne is right in restoring *)erexqe/ws for *)erixqoni/ou in the present passage of Apollodorus. See the Critical Note. Erechtheus married Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus by Diogenia, daughter of Cephisus, and had sons, to wit, Cecrops, Pandorus, and Metion; and daughters, to wit, Procris, Creusa, Chthonia, and Orithyia, who was carried off by Boreas.Orithyia is said to have been carried off by Boreas from the banks of the Ilissus, where she was dancing or gathering flowers with her playmates. An altar to Boreas marked the spot. See below, Apollod. 3.15.2; Plat. Phaedrus 229b-c; Paus. 1.19.5; Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.212ff., with the Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.212, from whom we learn that the story was told by the poet Simonides and the early historian Pherecydes. Compare Ov. Met. 6.683ff. According to another account, Orithyia was seen and loved by Boreas a
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 5, chapter 63 (search)
on shipboard. Anchimolius put in at Phalerum and disembarked his army there. The sons of Pisistratus, however, had received word of the plan already, and sent to ask help from the Thessalians with whom they had an alliance. The Thessalians, at their entreaty, joined together and sent their own king, Cineas of Conium, with a thousand horsemen. When the Pisistratidae got these allies, they devised the following plan. First they laid waste the plain of Phalerum so that all that land could be ridden over and then launched their cavalry against the enemy's army. Then the horsemen charged and slew Anchimolius and many more of the Lacedaemonians, and drove those that survived to their ships. Accordingly, the first Lacedaemonian army drew off, and Anchimolius' tomb is at Alopecae in Attica, near to the Heracleum in Cynosarges.The sites of Alopecae and Cynosarges are doubtful; recent research places them(but with no certainty) south of the Ilissus towards Phalerum. See How and Wells ad loc.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 6, chapter 137 (search)
reviously had been bad and worthless, they were envious and coveted the land, and so drove the Pelasgians out on this and no other pretext. But the Athenians themselves say that their reason for expelling the Pelasgians was just. The Pelasgians set out from their settlement at the foot of Hymettus and wronged the Athenians in this way: Neither the Athenians nor any other Hellenes had servants yet at that time, and their sons and daughters used to go to the Nine WellsS.E. of Athens, near the Ilissus. for water; and whenever they came, the Pelasgians maltreated them out of mere arrogance and pride. And this was not enough for them; finally they were caught in the act of planning to attack Athens. The Athenians were much better men than the Pelasgians, since when they could have killed them, caught plotting as they were, they would not so do, but ordered them out of the country. The Pelasgians departed and took possession of Lemnos, besides other places. This is the Athenian story; the o
Isocrates, Panathenaicus (ed. George Norlin), section 18 (search)
For some of my friends met me and related to me how, as they were sitting together in the Lyceum,A sacred enclosure on the right bank of the Ilissus, dedicated to Apollo—a gymnasium and exercise ground, but was also frequented by philosophers. Here Aristotle and his pupils were wont to gather. three or four of the sophists of no repute— men who claim to know everything and are prompt to show their presence everywhere—were discussing the poets, especially the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, saying nothing original about them, but merely chanting their verses and repeating from memory the cleverest things which certain others had said about them in the past.Other sophists made much of the study and elucidation of the poets, but there is no evidence that Isocrates did. See Blass, Die attische Beredsamkeit 2, pp. 4
Plato, Phaedrus, section 229a (search)
SocratesLet us turn aside here and go along the Ilissus; then we can sit down quietly wherever we please.PhaedrusI am fortunate, it seems, in being barefoot; you are so always. It is easiest then for us to go along the brook with our feet in the water, and it is not unpleasant, especially at this time of the year and the day.SocratesLead on then, and look out for a good place where we may sit.PhaedrusDo you see that very tall plane tree?SocratesWhat of it?
Plato, Phaedrus, section 229b (search)
PhaedrusThere is shade there and a moderate breeze and grass to sit on, or, if we like, to lie down on.SocratesLead the way.PhaedrusTell me, Socrates, is it not from some place along here by the Ilissus that Boreas is said to have carried off Oreithyia?SocratesYes, that is the story.PhaedrusWell, is it from here? The streamlet looks very pretty and pure and clear and fit for girls to play by.
Plato, Critias, section 112a (search)
akes occurred simultaneously with the third of the disastrous floods which preceded the destructive deluge in the time of Deucalion.Cf. Tim. 22 A, 23 A, B. But in its former extent, at an earlier period, it went down towards the Eridanus and the Ilissus, and embraced within it the Pnyx; and had the Lycabettus as its boundary over against the PnyxThe Eridanus ran on the N., the Ilissus on the S. side of Athens. The Pnyx was a hill W. of the Acropolis; the Lycabettus a larger hill to the N.E. structive deluge in the time of Deucalion.Cf. Tim. 22 A, 23 A, B. But in its former extent, at an earlier period, it went down towards the Eridanus and the Ilissus, and embraced within it the Pnyx; and had the Lycabettus as its boundary over against the PnyxThe Eridanus ran on the N., the Ilissus on the S. side of Athens. The Pnyx was a hill W. of the Acropolis; the Lycabettus a larger hill to the N.E. of the city.; and it was all rich in soil and, save for a small space, level on the top.