Kithairon

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Kithairon is a mountain in Greece traditionally associated with ancient Greek mythology and regional cults.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kithairon canonical 3
Kithairónas 1

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Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf mountain
ancientName Κιθαιρών
associatedDeity Dionysus
Hera
Pan
associatedWith ancient Greek mythology
regional cults
category Locations in Greek mythology
Mountains of Greece
country Greece
coveredBy forests
cultActivity Dionysian rites
nocturnal orgiastic festivals
elevation 1409 metres
4623 feet
hasMythicRole place of divine epiphanies in tragedy
site of maenad revels
hasPass Cithaeron pass
linked to: Mount Cithaeron
latinizedName Cithaeron
linked to: Mount Cithaeron
locatedIn Attica
Boeotia
Central Greece
linked to: central Greece
mentionedIn Euripides' Bacchae
Pausanias' Description of Greece
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
mythologicalEvent death of Pentheus
exposure of Oedipus as an infant
myth of Actaeon
linked to: Actaeon

myths of Dionysus
near Megara
Plataea
Thebes
partOf Parnitha–Kithairon mountain range
region Attica–Boeotia border
linked to: Boeotian plain
separates Attica
Boeotia
strategicImportance formed natural frontier between Attica and Boeotia in antiquity
usedFor hiking
mountaineering

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ourea hasPart Kithairon
Ourea hasMember Kithairon
Mount Cithaeron ancientName Kithairon
Mount Cithaeron modernGreekName Kithairónas
linked to: Kithairon