Erythrae
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Erythraea · the Erythraean country
in the texts
The Histories
A Boeotian town near which the Greeks first take up position and where the cavalry skirmish that kills Masistius occurs.
When they came (as it is said) to Erythrae in Boeotia, they learned that the barbarians were encamped by the Asopus.
Those who volunteered themselves, were posted at Erythrae in front of the whole Greek army, and they took with them the archers also.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Ionian city near Chios, a waypoint for Peloponnesian troop movements.
After this, Pedaritus, who when we last mentioned him was moving along the coast by land from Miletus, arrived at Erythrae, and then passed over, himself and his forces, to Chios;
On the arrival of a letter from Pedaritus in the night, to say that some Erythraean prisoners, after being set at liberty, had come from Samos to Erythraea for the purpose of betraying it, Astyochus immediately weighed anchor again for Erythraea:
and having investigated the case of the men who were thought to be traitors, when they found that the whole story had been made up in order to effect the escape of the men from Samos, they acquitted them of the charge, and sailed away, one to Chios, the other to Miletus, as he had intended.
Hellenica
A place on Agesilaus' route into Boeotia.
But on the following day at daybreak, after offering sacrifices, Agesilaus proceeded by the road to Erythrae.