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Athamantius Campus

Ἀθαμάντιον πέδιον

Athamantius Campus (Ἀθαμάντιον πέδιον).

1.

A plain in Boeotia, between Acraephium and the lake Copais, where Athamas was said to have formerly dwelt. (Paus. 9.24.1; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 306.)

2.

A plain in Phthiotis, in Thessaly, round Halus or Alus, so called from Athamas, the founder of Halus. (Apollon. 2.514; Etym. M. s.v. Leake, Ibid. vol. iv. p. 337.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.