Triton River

The Triton River in Boeotia, Greece ran into Lake Copais. The towns of Athenae and Eleusis were located on the river and were both destroyed in an inundation.[1][2]

This article is about the Triton River in Boeotia. For other uses, see Triton River (disambiguation).

A temple to Athena was located on the river in the town of Alalcomenae.[3]

Notes
  1. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.407. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece. Vol. 9.24.2.
  3. Pausanias. Description of Greece. Vol. 9.3.4. , 9.33.5, et seq.
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