Mycalessus
Cité antique · Grèce
- Abandonné
- inconnu
- Fondé
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordonnées
- 38.400, 23.517
Pourquoi abandonné
🏛️ Ruines antiques
Détecté automatiquement d’après le texte : ancient city of Boeotia
Histoire
Mycalessus or Mykalessos was a town of ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. It was said to have been so called, because the cow, which was guiding Cadmus and his comrades to Thebes, lowed (ἐμυκήσατο) in this place. In 413 BCE, some Thracians, whom the Athenians were sending home to their own country, were landed on the Euripus, and surprised Mycalessus. They not only sacked the town, but put all the inhabitants to the sword, not sparing even the women and children. Thucydides says that this was one of the greatest calamities that had ever befallen any city. Strabo calls Mycalessus a village in the territory of Tanagra, and places it upon the road from Thebes to Chalcis.
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