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Cithaeron

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Ci·thae·ron  (s-thîrn)
A mountain, 1,410 m (4,623 ft) high, of southeast Greece. It was considered sacred to Dionysus and the Muses.


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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.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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