• called Trachis until 426 BC, when it was refounded as a Spartan colony and became Heraclea Trachinia. It is located to the west of Thermopylae. Trachis is...
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    Women of Trachis or The Trachiniae (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai) c. 450–425 BC, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. Women of Trachis is generally...
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  • According to Herodotus, this bounty was collected by Athenades (Ἀθηνάδης) of Trachis approximately a decade after the second Persian invasion of Greece was...
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    against the Oetaeans. The Spartans then founded the town Heraclea Trachis in place of Trachis. In the following decades, the Malians were under the hegemony...
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  • mythology, Ceyx (/ˈsiːɪks/; Ancient Greek: Κήϋξ, translit. Kēüx) was a king of Trachis in Thessaly. He received Heracles, and Heracles's sons later fled to him...
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  • Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίς), and Trachis Phocica (Τραχίς ἡ Φωκική) to distinguish it from the Trachis in Malis, was a small city of ancient Phocis...
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    Trachis after marrying King Ceyx. The latter was the son of Eosphorus (often translated as Lucifer). The couple were very happy together in Trachis....
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    the city Trachis was 5 stadia from the river Melas, and that the river Asopus issued from a gorge in the mountains, to the south of Trachis. According...
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  • Chrysallida trachis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The species is one...
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  • Oechalia or Oichalia (Ancient Greek: Οἰχαλία) was a town in Trachis, in ancient Thessaly. According to Greek mythology, King Eurytus of Oechalia had promised...
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