Tegyra ( or Τέγυρα), also: Tegyrae () was a town of
ancient Boeotia
Boeotia ( ), sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (; modern Greek, modern: ; ancient Greek, ancient: ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Central Greece (adm ...
, the site of an
oracle
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and temple of
Apollo
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, who was even said to have been born there. It was the site of the
Battle of Tegyra in 375 BCE.
It was located north of
Lake Copais
Lake Copais, also spelled Kopais or Kopaida (; ), was a lake in the centre of Boeotia, Greece, west of Thebes. It was first drained in the Bronze Age, and drained again in the late 19th century. It is now flat dry land and is still known as Kop ...
, above the marshes of the river
Melas. Its location has been identified with sparse remains 5 km (3 mi) northeast of
Orchomenus, a hill with springs at the base, the head of the Polygira tributary of the Melas. J.M. Fossey, however, placed Tegyra at modern
Pyrgos, 7 km. further east, and thought the Polygira site was Homeric
Aspledon.
[Farinetti, E., Boeotian Landscapes (2009), App. I.4.9]
See also
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Delos Mountain
Attribution
References
External links
Viotikos kosmos, ancient Tegyra at Wikidot
Populated places in ancient Boeotia
Classical oracles
Former populated places in Greece
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