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Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 32
Colophon (search for this): book 9, chapter 32
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 32
Thermopylae (search for this): book 9, chapter 32
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Argo (Sudan) (search for this): book 9, chapter 32
Thespiae (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 32
Creusis, the harbor of Thespiae, has nothing to show publicly, but at the home of a private person I found an image of Dionysus made of gypsum and adorned with painting. The voyage from the Peloponnesus to Creusis is winding and, besides, not a calm one. For capes jut out so that a straight sea-crossing is impossible, and at the same time violent gales blow down from the mountains.
Sailing from Creusis, not out to sea, but along Boeotia, you reach on the right a city called Thisbe. First there i of old the best sailors in Boeotia, and remind you that Tiphys, who was chosen to steer the Argo, was a fellow-townsman. They point out also the place before the city where they say Argo anchored on her return from Colchis.
As you go inland from Thespiae you come to Haliartus. The question who became founder of Haliartus and Coroneia I cannot separate from my account of Orchomenus.See Paus. 9.24.6-7. At the Persian invasion the people of Haliartus sided with the Greeks, and so a division of the
Aegospotami (Turkey) (search for this): book 9, chapter 32
Boeotia (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 32