Ancient Greek city
Copae or Kopai (
Ancient Greek : Κῶπαι ), or Copia or Copiae , was an
ancient Greek city (
polis ) in
Boeotia , on the northern shore of
Lake Copais , which derived its name from this town.
[1] Copae was part of
Thersander 's kingdom and is mentioned by
Homer in the
Catalogue of Ships in the
Iliad .
[2] It was a member of the
Boeotian League .
[3]
[4] It was still in existence in the time of
Pausanias , who mentions here the temples of
Demeter ,
Dionysus and
Sarapis .
[1]
[5]
Its site is located near the village of
Kastro , formerly Topolia.
[6]
[7]
[8]
References
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a
b
Pausanias (1918).
"24.1" . Description of Greece . Vol. 9. Translated by
W. H. S. Jones ; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via
Perseus Digital Library . -2.
^
Homer .
Iliad . Vol. 2.502.
^
Thucydides .
History of the Peloponnesian War . Vol. 4.93.
^
Strabo .
Geographica . Vol. ix. pp. 406, 410. Page numbers refer to those of
Isaac Casaubon 's edition.
^
Pliny .
Naturalis Historia . Vol. 4.7.12.
^ Lane, Michael F. (2015-12-22),
"Gla" , Oxford Classical Dictionary ,
doi :
10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2844 ,
ISBN
978-0-19-938113-5 , retrieved 2023-07-17
^
Richard Talbert , ed. (2000).
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
ISBN
978-0-691-03169-9 .
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Lund University .
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire .
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Smith, William , ed. (1854–1857). "Hyle".
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray.
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