Graea

Graea or Graia (

romanized: Graîa) was a city on the coast of Boeotia in ancient Greece. Its site is located near modern Dramesi in Paralia Avlidas.^[1]^[2]

History

Graea is listed under Boeotia in Homer's Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.^[3] It seems to have included the city of Oropus, though by the fifth century BCE it was probably a kome (district) of that city.^[4] According to Pausanias the name was a shortcut of the original name Tanagraia, who was daughter of the river-god Asopos. Graea was a greater area including Aulis, Mycalessus, Harma etc.^[5] It is also described by some sources as a city; Fossey argues for its identification with the hill of Dhrámesi 8 km from Tanagra,^[6] while others suggest it is identical with Oropus itself.^[7]

Graea was sometimes said to be the oldest city of Greece.

deluge. The same assertion about the origins of Graea is found in an ancient marble, the Parian Chronicle, discovered in 1687 and dated to 267–263 BCE, that is currently kept in Oxford and on Paros

.

Reports about this ancient city can be also found in Homer, in Pausanias, in

ancient Attica and became a deme of the phyle of Pandionis, as evidenced from a surviving inscription.^[10]^[11]

The word

Graia

, and writes:

If men from Oropos-Graia were among the early Greek visitors to
Latin West. Such people told their first contacts in the Latin region that they were "Graikoi," that is, people from Graia. They were thus called "Graeci" by the people whom they met.^[14]

The ethnonym comes from the adjective γραῖα graia "old woman", derived from the

Mycenean Greek.^[16]

Hellenes, and believes that it was the name originally used for the Dorians of Dodona in Epirus.^[17]^[18]

See also

Names of the Greeks

Ogyges

Minyans

References

ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
.

^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.498.

ISBN 0-521-28171-7
, p. 191.

^ Pausanias: Boeotica 20–24

^ John M. Fossey, "The Identification of Graia," Euphrosyne 4 (1970), pp. 3–22.

ISBN 1-84171-411-9
, p. 151.

^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.23.3.

^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ορωπώς.

^ Ross & Meier, Die Demen von Attika, p. 6, et seq.

^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Oropus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

^ Hatzidakis, 1977, quoted in Babiniotis Dictionary

^ Online Etymology Dictionary.[1]

ISBN 0-415-29899-7
, p. 403 (note 7).

^ R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 285.

^ R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 267.

^ Online Etymology Dictionary.

^ Aristotle, Meteorologica I.xiv

Authority control databases: Geographic

Pleiades

38°23′10″N 23°37′44″E / 38.386°N 23.629°E / 38.386; 23.629

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[1] ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
.

[2] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

[3] Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.498.

[4] ISBN 0-521-28171-7
, p. 191.

[5] Pausanias: Boeotica 20–24

[6] John M. Fossey, "The Identification of Graia," Euphrosyne 4 (1970), pp. 3–22.

[7] ISBN 1-84171-411-9
, p. 151.

[8] Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.23.3.

[9] Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ορωπώς.

[10] Ross & Meier, Die Demen von Attika, p. 6, et seq.

[11] Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Oropus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

[12] Hatzidakis, 1977, quoted in Babiniotis Dictionary

[13] Online Etymology Dictionary.[1]

[14] ISBN 0-415-29899-7
, p. 403 (note 7).

[15] R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 285.

[16] R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 267.

[17] Online Etymology Dictionary.

[18] Aristotle, Meteorologica I.xiv

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