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Asopos (Boeotia)

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Pausanias (9.1.1) cites Plataean tradition that Asopus was ancient king of that region in succession to King Cithaeron who gave his name to the mountain as King Asopus gave his name to the river and that the city Plataea was named after
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daughter of the river Asopus. Pausanias then comments oddly that he thinks that this eponymous Plataea was daughter of King Asopus rather than of the river Asopus.
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The Asopos river appears in the top left corner of this view of the battlefield of the
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Asopus

Battle of Plataea
Greece
Cithaeron
Mouth
South Euboean Gulf
38°20′7″N 23°44′28″E / 38.33528°N 23.74111°E / 38.33528; 23.74111
Greek
river
Boeotia
Attica
Greece
Thebes
Plataea
Battle of Plataea
Pausanias
reeds
Cithaeron
Thebes
South Euboean Gulf
Skala Oropou
Lefktra
Agios Thomas
Oinofyta
Sykamino
Skala Oropou
chromium
Plataea
Oroe

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