place
Cithaeron
The mountain near Thebes, haunt of Bacchic rites and pasture, part of the Theban landscape and the hero's mad threats.
Reading notes
- Hercules (Mad) §239 Cithaeron
The mountain near Thebes where the stolen cattle grazed; part of the Theban landscape.
- Oedipus §835 Cithaeron
The mountain between Thebes and Corinth where the infant Oedipus was exposed and reared by shepherds.
- The Phoenician Women §12 Cithaeron
The mountain near Thebes where Oedipus was exposed as an infant; haunt of Bacchic rites and scene of the deaths he catalogues here.
- Thyestes §101 Cithaeron
The mountain range between Boeotia and Attica, here losing its snow.