Alalcomenae

Alalcomenae (Ἀλαλκομεναί) is the name of several towns in Greece.

Alalcomenae, Boeotia

Now called Alalkomenes or Alalkomeni, Alalcomenae in Boeotia was on the south-west bank of Lake Copais, west of Haliartus (modern Aliartos), before the lake was drained. Stephanus of Byzantium refers to the town by the name Alalkomenion.

In antiquity Alalcomenae was famous for a temple to the goddess Athena.[1] The epic poet Homer twice refers to her as Alalkomenean Athene (Ἀλαλκομενηῒς Ἀθήνη).[2] The town was by a hill which Strabo calls Mount Tilphossius (named for Telphousa, the spring visited by the god Apollo). Strabo also records that the tomb of the seer Teiresias, and the temple of Tilphossian Apollo, were located just outside Alalcomenae.[3]

Ancient sources preserve three accounts of the origin of the town's name:

Stephanus of Byzantium and the geographer (tr. W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod, 1918)

(tr. H.L. Jones, 1924)

(tr. H.L. Jones, 1924)

Strabo on Thessalian Alalcomenae (tr. H.L. Jones, 1924)

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