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Education / Culture | Boeotia, Boeotians
(Ἀνθηδών; Anthēdṓn). Harbour town in northern Boeotia ((Hom. Il. 2,508 calls it ἐσχατόωσα; eschatóōsa, ‘the farthest’), situated on the foothills of Mount Messapion, on the gulf of Euboea, c.14 km west of Chalcis, 2 km north of the modern Loukisia. It was inhabited from the Mycenaean period until at least into the 6th cent. AD; its main income derived from fishing and seafaring. Under the rule of Epaminondas (middle of the 4th cent. BC),…