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Cithaeron

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Cithaeron (sĭthē`rən), Gr. Kithairón, mountain range, c.10 mi (16 km) long, central Greece, between Boeotia in the north and Attica in the south. It rises to 4,623 ft (1,409 m). The range was the scene of many events in Greek mythology and was especially sacred to Dionysius.
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So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron.
Oedipus The King by Sophocles View in context
494: They say that Teiresias saw two snakes mating on Cithaeron and that, when he killed the female, he was changed into a woman, and again, when he killed the male, took again his own nature.
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