Cithaeron

American  

[si-theer-uhn] / sɪˈθɪər ən /

noun

1. a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4,623 feet (1,409 meters).

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Example Sentences

A man arrives from Corinth with the message that Oedipus’s father has died It emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that he was given a baby....

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Indeed they could see them pursuing with torches upon the Athens road towards Cithaeron and Druoskephalai or Oakheads.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard

For they had never mourned for the daughter of Demeter in the asphodel meadows of Sicily, nor traversed the glades of Cithaeron with fawn-skin and with spear.

From Essays and Lectures by Wilde, Oscar

Under such auspices, Oedipus was born, and to elude the prophecy was exposed by his parents on Mount Cithaeron.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Oedipus begs him to let him live on Cithaeron, beseeching him to look after his two daughters whose birth is so stained that no man can ever wed them.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.