Eilesion (Boeotia) 11 Asopia/Khlembotsari - Ειλέσιον

Εἰλέσιον - Eilesion, city, possibly on Ag. Ilias hill N of Asopia (Khlembotsari) in Viotia Central Greece
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Latitude: 38.302200
Longitude: 23.503700
Confidence: Medium (20150419)

Greek name: Εἰλέσιον
Place ID: 383235UEil
Time period: ACHR
Region: Central Greece
Country: Greece
Department: Viotia
Mod: Asopia/Khlembotsari

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Modern Description: Εἰλέσιον - Eilesion: A city of southeast Boeotia mentioned by Homer, possibly Ag. Ilias hill N of Asopia (formerly Khlembotsari) in Viotia Central Greece
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilesium
Wikidata ID: Q12876787
Trismegistos Geo: 33346
Manto: 9651942
DARE: 29331

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Homer, Iliad§2.495  ridges, Thespeia, Graea, and spacious Mycalessus; and that dwelt about Harma and Eilesium and Erythrae; -1000
Nonnus, Dionysiaca§13.53  of Dionysos; and those who inhabited Mideia and the celebrated towns of Eilesion and Scolon and Thisbe based upon the brine, dovehaunted harbour of Aphrodite -1000
Dionysius Calliphontis, Description of Greece§90  Then the promontory called Eresion, then Euripos. Anthedon has the Anthedonion harbor. And not much after, -100
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Literary Composition§16  and Graia, and green Mycalessus the land broad-meadowed, And in Harma and Eilesius, and Erythrae the mountain-shadowed, And they that in Eleon abode, and -10
Strabo, Geography§9.2.17  name can no longer truly apply to them. Helos and Heleon and Heilesium were so called because they were situated near marshes; but now the -1
Strabo, Geography§9.2.26  likewise says concerning the rest: 'And those who lived about Harma and Heilesium and Erythrae, and those who held Eleon and Hyle and Peteon.' Peteon -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§4.26  coast and below Thebes, are Ocalea, Heleon, Scolos, Schoenos, Peteon, Hyriae, Mycalesos, Iresion, Pteleon, Olyros, and Tanagra, the people of which are free; and, -1
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica§E261.13  Eilesion: Εἰλέσιον, [πόλις Βοιωτίας.] Ὅμηρος 'καὶ Εἰλέσιον καὶ Ἐρύθρας'. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εἰλεσιεύς. -1
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica§E261.13  Eilesion: Εἰλέσιον, [πόλις Βοιωτίας.] Ὅμηρος 'καὶ Εἰλέσιον καὶ Ἐρύθρας'. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εἰλεσιεύς. -1
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.469  Ζαθίας. Of the other Boeotian towns named by the poet, Hyria and Eilesium are the only two to which I have not yet adverted, with 1806
Col. William Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (v. 1-4)§2.469  were right in supposing that Hyria was the same place as Hysiae. Eilesium like Eleon, indicates, as Strabo remarks, a marshy position, which is not 1806
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