Laurium
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
silver mines at Laurium
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Place Diocleides said he was going to fetch slave earnings.
after seeing what he had, he went on to Laurium;
Diocleides’ tale was that he had had to fetch the earnings of a slave of his at Laurium.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The site of Athenian silver mines whose revenues Alcibiades warns would be lost if Decelea is fortified by Sparta.
They will also at once be deprived of their revenues from the silver mines at Laurium, with the advantages they now derive from their land and their courts of justice;