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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 395 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CITHAERON , now called from its See also:

PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine forests Elatea, a famous See also:

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain range (4626) ft.) in the See also:

south of See also:

BOEOTIA

Boeotia, separating that See also:

state from Megaris and See also:

ATTICA

Attica. It was famous in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, and is frequently mentioned by the See also:

GREAT

great poets, especially by See also:

SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.)

Sophocles. It was on Cithaeron that See also:

ACTAEON

Actaeon was changed into a See also:

STAG (0. Eng. stagga, a Norse word, cf. Icel. steggr, steggi, a male animal, cf. Steggander, a drake; it is usually referred to stigan, to climb, to mount, but this is doubtful)

stag, that See also:

PENTHEUS

Pentheus was torn to pieces by the Bacchantes whose orgies he had been watching, and that the See also:

INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant See also:

OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")

Oedipus was exposed. This mountain, too, was the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of the mystic See also:

RITES

rites of See also:

DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus, and the festival of the Daedala in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

HERA

Hera. The See also:

CARRIAGE

carriage-road from See also:

Athens to See also:

Thebes crosses the range by a picturesque See also:

DEFILE

defile (the pass of Dryoscephalae, " See also:

OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

Oak-heads "), which was at one See also:

time guarded on the See also:

ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic See also:

side by a strong fortress, the ruins of which are known as Ghyphto-kastro (" Gipsy See also:

Castle "). See also:

PLATAEA, or PLATAEAE

Plataea is situated on the See also:

north slope of the mountain, and the See also:

STRATEGY

strategy of the See also:

BATTLE

battle of 499 B.C. was considerablyaffected by the fact that it was necessary for the Greeks to keep their communications open by the passes (see PLATAEA). The best known of these is that of Dryoscephalae, which must then, as now, have been the See also:

DIRECT

direct route from Athens to Thebes. Two other passes, farther to the See also:

west, were crossed by the roads from Plataea to Athens and to See also:

MEGARA

Megara respectively. (E.

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