Corseia
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.594, 23.082
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Greek polis of Boeotia
History
Corseia or Korseia, or Chorsia (Χορσία), was town of ancient Boeotia, sometimes included in Opuntian Locris, was the first place which the traveller reached after crossing the mountains from Cyrtones. In the Third Sacred War it was taken by the Phocians, along with Orchomenus and Coroneia. In the plain below, the river Platanius joined the sea. When Pausanias visited in the 2nd century, he found a sacred grove of yews with a small image of Hermes in the open air, half a stadion from Corseia.