Ascra or Askre ( grc, Ἄσκρη, Áskrē) was a town in ancient Boeotia which is best known today as the home of the poet

Hesiod Hesiod (; grc-gre, Ἡσίοδος ''Hēsíodos'') was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded by western authors as 'the first written poet i ...

.W. Hazlitt (1858) ''The Classical Gazetteer'' (London)
p. 54, s.v. Ascra
It was located upon Mount Helicon, five miles west of Thespiae. According to a lost poetic ''Atthis'' by one Hegesinous, a maiden by the name of Ascra lay with Poseidon and bore a son Oeoclus who, together with the Aloadae, founded the town named for his mother. In the '' Works and Days'', Hesiod says that his father was driven from Aeolian Cyme to Ascra by poverty, only to find himself situated in a most unpleasant town (lines 639–40): The 4th century BCE astronomer Eudoxus thought even less of Ascra's climate. However, other writers speak of Ascra as abounding in corn, and in wine. By the time Eudoxus wrote, the town had been all but destroyed (by Thespiae sometime between 700 and 650 BCE), a loss commemorated by a similarly lost

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poem, which opened: "Of Ascra there isn't even a trace anymore" (). This apparently was a hyperbole, for in the 2nd century CE, Pausanias could report that a single tower, though not much else, still stood at the site.Pausania
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Cities in ancient Boeotia Populated places in ancient Boeotia Former populated places in Greece {{AncientBoeotia-geo-stub