Mideia (Boeotia)
Mideia (Ancient Greek: Μίδεια) was a city of ancient Boeotia mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.[1] Pausanias relates that Mideia occupied the height adjacent to the later town of Lebadeia, and its inhabitants, under the conduct of , an Athenian, migrated into the plain, and founded there the city named after him.[2] On the other hand, Strabo maintains that the Homeric cities Arne and Mideia were both swallowed up by Lake Copais.[3]
References[]
- ^ Homer. Iliad. 2.507.
- ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 9.39.1.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. ix. p. 413. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Lebadeia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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