Hysiae or Hysiai (Ancient Greek: Ὑσιαί), also Hysia (Ὑσία), was a town of ancient Boeotia, in the Parasopia, at the northern foot of Mount Cithaeron, and on the high road from Thebes to Athens. It was said to have been a colony from Hyria, and to have been founded by Nycteus, father of Antiope.[1] Herodotus says that both Hysiae and Oenoe were Attic demoi when they were taken by the Boeotians in 507 BCE.[2] It probably, however, belonged to Plataea.[3] Oenoe was recovered by the Athenians; but, as Mt. Cithaeron was the natural boundary between Attica and Boeotia, Hysiae continued to be a Boeotian town. Hysiae is mentioned in the operations which preceded the Battle of Plataea.[4] Hysiae was in ruins in the time of Pausanias, who noticed there an unfinished temple of Apollo and a sacred well.[5] Hysiae is mentioned also by Euripides[6] and Thucydides.[7]

Its site is located near modern Kriekouki in Erythres.[8][9]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Hyle". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

References

  1. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.404. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 5.74.
  3. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 6.108.
  4. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 9.15, 25.
  5. ^ Pausanias (1918). "2.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 9. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  6. ^ Euripides, Bacchae, 751
  7. ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 3.24, 5.83.
  8. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  9. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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