Gargaphia spring (Boeotia) 20 Plataia - Γαργαφία

Γαργαφία - Gargaphia, spring near Plataia in Viotia Central Greece
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Latitude: 38.239000
Longitude: 23.309000
Confidence: Low (20160124)

Greek name: Γαργαφία
Place ID: 382233WGar
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Region: Central Greece
Country: Greece
Department: Viotia
Mod: Plataia

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Ovid, Metamorphoses§3.155  There is a valley called Gargaphia ; sacred to Diana, dense with pine trees and the pointed cypress, -1000
Statius, Thebaid§7.243  they whom Mycalessos nourishes beneath her pines, and Melas, Pallas' stream, and Gargaphie with the waters loved of Hecate, and they on whose young wheat -1000
Hyginus, Fabulae§181  When Diana, wearied from constant hunting in the thickly shadowed valley of Gargaphia, in the summertime was bathing in the stream called Parthenius, Actaeon, -1000
Herodotus, Histories§9.25  it is better watered. To this region then and to the spring Gargaphia, which is in this region, they resolved that they must come, -479
Herodotus, Histories§9.25  arrived they posted themselves according to their several nations near the spring Gargaphia and the sacred enclosure of Androcrates the hero, over low hills or -479
Herodotus, Histories§9.49  therefore to fight against: and they disturbed and choked up the spring Gargaphia, from which the whole army of the Hellenes was drawing its -479
Herodotus, Histories§9.51  Island. This is distant ten furlongs from the Asopos and the spring Gargaphia, where they were then encamped, and is in front of the -479
Herodotus, Histories§9.52  of the Plataians at a distance of twenty furlongs from the spring Gargaphia ; and when they had there arrived they halted in front of -479
Alciphron, Letters I-III§1.11  that the Graces, having abandoned Orchomenus, after bathing in the fountain of Gargaphia, had come to folic around his cheeks. On his lips bloom -350
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§4.25  Boeotia the Fountains of Oidipodia, Psamathe, Dirce, Epicrane, Arethusa, Hippocrene, Aganippe, and Gargaphie ; and, besides the mountains already mentioned, Mycalesos, Hadylius, and Acontius. -1
Pausanias, Description of Greece§9.4.3  return home of the chiefs who led Boeotians to Troy. The spring Gargaphia was filled in by the Persian cavalry under Mardonius, because the Greek -1
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.333  with squared stones of ancient fabric. This I take to be the Gargaphia of Herodotus. In the wall of a ruined tower situated below the 1805
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.333  the principal springs of the Plataeis with a view of identifying the Gargaphia . If this be the fountain just indicated about midway between Kriakuki 1805
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.343  no great height, and partly upon a level plain, near the fountain Gargaphia, and the temenus of one of the archagetae, or ancient heroes 1805
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.343  the Greek position was in the plain, it is evident that the Gargaphia could not have been either the fountain Vergutiani, or that at Kriakuki. 1805
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.344  a small space on either bank between the hostile armies. The fountain Gargaphia was in the part of the line occupied by the Lacedaemonians, or 1805
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.347  and arrows, but succeeded at length in obtaining possession of the fountain Gargaphia, and in rendering it useless; and thus the Greeks, having already 1805
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.347  united, and formed one stream. This place was ten stades distant from Gargaphia, and from the position of the Greeks on the Asopus. The 1805
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.348  far as a temple of Juno, which was twenty stades distant from Gargaphia, near the city of Plataea. The Athenians, desirous of ascertaining whether 1805
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.358  a distance of ten stades from the Asopus as well as from Gargaphia, is nothing more than a level meadow intersected by several brooks 1805
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