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Athenae

Ἀθῆναι

Athenae (Ἀθῆναι). Besides the celebrated city of this name, Stephanus B. (s. v.) mentions eight others, namely in Laconia, Caria, Liguria, Italy, Euboea, Acarnania, Boeotia, and Pontus. Of these three only are known to us from other authorities.

1.

DIADES (Διάδες), a town in Boeotia, near the promontory Cenaeum, founded by the Athenians (Strab. x. p.446), or according to Ephorus, by Dias, a son of Abas. (Steph. B. sub voce

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An ancient town of Boeotia, on the river Triton, and near the lake Copais, which, together with the neighbouring town of Eleusis, was destroyed by an inundation. (Strab. ix. p.407; Paus. 9.24.2; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 136, 293.)

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.