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+Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium is where the wide Thracian sea contracts until the passage between the island of Sciathus and the mainland of Nomos Magnisias [22.75,39.25] (department), Thessaly, Greece, EuropeMagnesia is but narrow. This strait leads next to +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium, which is a beach on the coast of +Euboea [23.833,38.566] (island), Nomos Evvoias, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Euboea, on which stands a temple of Artemis.
+Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium is where the wide Thracian sea contracts until the passage between the island of Sciathus and the mainland of Nomos Magnisias [22.75,39.25] (department), Thessaly, Greece, EuropeMagnesia is but narrow. This strait leads next to +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium, which is a beach on the coast of +Euboea [23.833,38.566] (island), Nomos Evvoias, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Euboea, on which stands a temple of Artemis.
[2] The pass through
+Trachis [22.55,38.8] (Perseus) Trachis into
Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas
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is fifty feet wide at its narrowest point. It is not here, however, but elsewhere that the way is narrowest, namely, in front of
+Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae and behind it; at
Alpeni, which lies behind, it is only the breadth of a cart-way, and it is the same at the Phoenix stream, near the town of
Anthele.
[3] To the west
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of
+Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae rises a high mountain, inaccessible and precipitous, a spur of
Oeta; to the east of the road there is nothing but marshes and sea. In this pass are warm springs for bathing, called the Basins by the people of the country, and an altar of
Heracles stands nearby. Across this entry a wall had been built, and formerly there was a gate in it.
[4] It was the
Phocians
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who built it for fear of the
Thessalians when these came from
+Nomo Thesprotias [20.333,39.5] (department), Epirus, Greece, Europe Thesprotia to dwell in the
Aeolian land, the region which they now possess. Since the
Thessalians were trying to subdue them, the
Phocians made this their protection, and in their search for every means to keep the
Thessalians from invading their country, they then turned the stream from the hot springs into the pass, so that it might be a watercourse.
[5] The ancient wall had been built long ago and most of it lay in ruins; those who built it up again thought that they would in this way bar the foreigner's way into
Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. Very near the road is a village called
Alpeni, and it is from here that the
Greeks expected to obtain provisions.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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