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	Cephissus (Boeotia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pausanias (9.38.7) records a Theban tradition that the river Cephissus formerly flowed under the a mountain and entered the sea until Heracles blocked the passage and diverted the water into the Orchomenian plain; but he does not believe it.
		A mortal son of Cephissus was Eteocles by Euippe daughter of Leucon son of Athamas.
		Cephissus was also father of Narcissus according to Ovid's Metamorphoses (3.342), Hyginus (271), and Statius' Thebaid (7.340), Narcissus' mother being an otherwise unknown naiad named Liriope according to Ovid.
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	Cephissus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cephissus (Athenian plain), a river in Attica flowing through the Athenian plain.
		Cephissus (Argolis), a river of Argolis, tributary of the Inachus.
		Cephissus (Corinth), a former river which Pausanias (2.20.6) says was destroyed by Poseidon but which can still be heard flowing under the earth at a sanctuary to Cephissus in Corinth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cephissus (240 words)

	PHOCIS - LoveToKnow Article on PHOCIS
		It is probable that the country was originally of greater extent, for there was a tradition that the Phocians once owned a strip of land round Daphnus on the sea opposite Euboea, and carried their frontier to Thermopylae; in addition, in early days they controlled the great sanctuary of Delphi.
		During the Persian invasion of 480 the Phocians at first joined in the national defence, but by their irresolute conduct at Thermopylae lost that position for the Greeks; in the campaign of Plataea they were enrolled on the Persian side.
		In 457 an attempt to extend their influence to the head waters of the Cephissus in the territory of Doris brought a Spartan army into Phocis in defence of the metropolis of the Dorians.
	3.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PH/PHOCIS.htm (813 words)

	Cephissus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One meaning of the name Cephissus is a Greek river god, the father of Narcissus.
		Another meaning of the name Cephissus is a man who was changed into a sea monster by Apollo.
		A third meaning for the name Cephissus is three famous rivers in Greece: in Attica near Eleusis; in Attica near Athens; in Boeotia and in Phocis near the sacred shrine of Delphi and Mount Parnassus.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cephissus.html (160 words)

	Cephissus Definition / Cephissus Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cephissus (Athenian plain), a river in AtticaAttica (in Greek: Αττική, Attikí) is a nomos (prefecture) in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece....
		Cephissus (Argolis), a river of Argolis, tributary of the InachusInachus is one of the Oceanids in Greek mythology, Inachus was married to Melia, with whom he had one son: Phoroneus.
		Cephissus was additionally a man changed into a sea monster by ApolloApollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt).
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	Cephissus (Athenian plain)
		Cephissus (Athenian plain) (Greek Κήφισσος, Kifissós, Kephissós, Kêphissos) or Cephisus (Greek Κήφισος Kêphissos), a river flowing through the Athenian plain.
		In his summary of Greek mythology Apollodorus (3.15.1) declares that Erechtheus' wife Praxithea was daughter of Phrasimus (otherwise unknown to us) by Diogenia (otherwise unknown to us) daughter of Cephissus.
		The freeway over the Kifissos or the Cephissus made it down to the freeway (not far where the river ends) linking the southern suburbs and Athens from Piraeus which is also Poseidonos Avenue for its final phases of widening GR-1.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/c/ce/cephissus__athenian_plain_.html (312 words)

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		Cephissus stuffed his family, a case of warm Fanta, six jumbo bags of pork rinds and two Frito pies into an early-’90s Ford Bronco and headed out to the Ozark Mountains of northern Arkansas, to the southernmost reach of Table Rock Lake.
		After completing it, Cephissus could retire to sunny skies forever in Hebben, where all of his dead families were waiting with fresh pot roast and lemonade, and delightful tales of summer camp for Cephissus to ignore.
		Well, Cephissus thought, Hebben’s reflection is in the rearview mirror, and I’m looking at the mirror, so the mirror must be part of me. And the mirror’s attached to the truck, and the truck’s on the road, and the road’s on the hillside, and it’s all beneath the sky.
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	Cephissus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cephissus (Salamis), a river in (Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried) Salamis.
		Cephissus (Corinth), a former river which Pausanias (2.20.6) says was destroyed by Poseidon but which can still be heard flowing under the earth at a sanctuary to Cephissus in (The modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens) Corinth.
		Cephissus was also a man changed into a sea monster by (Greek god of light; god of prophesy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis) Apollo.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ce/Cephissus.htm (319 words)

	W.M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece Vol. II, chapter 11-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sfaka and Khúbavo are on opposite sides of the extremity of the mountain just mentioned; Meralí stands on a small insulated height between them, and Bélissi is opposite to Khúbavo, at the foot of a mountain similar and parallel to the former, and separated from it by a valley a mile in width.
		The entire circuit of the walls of the acropolis of Daulis, which seems to have been nearly circular, and formed of masonry almost regular, maybe traced on the summit of the height which rises opposite to the modern village to the south.
		route the Stená of the Cephissus, or Boeoto-Phocic Strait, opens from the foot of the hills of Khasnési, and 'Aio Vlasi admits a view through the Stená: the hill of Krevasará being then nearly hid by the heights of Khasnési, and that of the Paleókastro, near Bélissi, appearing to advance half across the pass.
	esf.niwi.knaw.nl /esf1996/leake/html/ch11_3.htm (2161 words)

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		Yelping Cephissus jumped to his paws and dashed toward Charmander jumping away as the dragon blew small embers at him.
		Cephissus' leer was stopped as flying embers fell around and on him burning him.
		Cephissus was flung into the air to land a few feet away in a broken position where he lay whimpering.
	www.thepokemontower.com /authors/lasini/elysium2.html (481 words)

	OETA - LoveToKnow Article on OETA
		Kotawthra), a mountain to the south of Thessaly, in Greece, forming a boundary between the valleys of the Spercheius and the Boeotian Cephissus.
		In its eastern portion, called Callidromus, it comes close to the sea, leaving only a narrow passage known as the famous pass of Thermopylae (?..) There was also a high pass to the west of Callidromus leading over into the upper Cephissus valley.
		In mythology Oeta is chiefly celebrated as the scene of the funeral pyre on which Heracles burnt himself before his admission to Olympus.
	29.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OE/OETA.htm (114 words)

	GTP
		The chief town in Phocis, excepting Delphi was Elateia situated upon the left bank of the Cephissus, on the highroad from Locris to Boeotia, in the natural march of an army from Thermopylae into central Greece.
		Next in importance was Abae, also to the left of the Cephissus, upon the Boeotian frontier, celebrated for its ancient oracle of Apollo.
		Right of the Cephissus, and between this river and Mount Parnassus, Lilaea, Charadra, Amphicaea, Ledon, Neon, which was supplanted by Tithorea, Parapotamii.
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		Quickening her step Masika cuddled the whimpering Cephissus to her tightly, trying to shield him from the worst of the rain.
		Masika barely had enough time to look up and scream as the lightening slammed into her kneeling body, knocking it to the ground were it trembled and twitched.
		Cephissus cried out loudly, bounding toward his fallen trainer.
	www.thepokemontower.com /authors/lasini/elysium3.html (627 words)

	W.M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece Vol. II, chapter 11-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To the westward of this point are some copious springs at the foot of the hills, which form a marshy space for a quarter of a mile, and then join the river.
		The course of the Cephissus is north-easterly from the sources to the extremity of the slope of Dhadhí, which it surrounds; it then gradually assumes the south-easterly course, which it follows to the Stená, leading into the plain of Chæroneia.
		In a recess at the foot of Parnassus, from which one of these tributaries of the Kaenítza proceeds, and about midway between Paleókastro and Graviá are the ruins of an ancient town at the village of Mariolátes.
	esf.niwi.knaw.nl /esf1996/leake/html/ch11_1.htm (1923 words)

	Cephissus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cephissus (llano ateniense), un río en Attica que atraviesa el llano del ateniense.
		Cephissus (llano) de Eleusinian, un río de Attica que atraviesa el llano de Eleusinian.
		Cephissus (Argolis), un río de Argolis, tributario del Inachus.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ce/Cephissus.htm (207 words)

	Cephissus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cephissus (Greek Κήφισσος: Kifissós Kephissós or Kêphissos) or Cephisus (Greek Κήφισος: Kêphisos) the name of several rivers in Greece :
		Pausanias (1.38.4) claims it flows more violently the other Cephissus of the Athenian plain.
		Cephissus (Corinth) a former river which (2.20.6) says was destroyed by Poseidon but can still be heard flowing under the at a sanctuary to Cephissus in Corinth.
	www.freeglossary.com /Cephissus (166 words)

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		Theban tradition that the river Cephissus formerly flowed under the a mountain and entered the sea until Heracles blocked the passage and diverted the water into the Orchomenian plain; but he does not believe it.
		However one of these alternate versions is that Thyia daughter of the aboriginal Castalius was Delphus' mother, almost certainly the same Thyia whom Herodotus (7.178.1) claims was daughter of Cephissus to whom the Delphians built an altar to the winds and who was eponym of the
		A mortal son of Cephissus was Eteocles by Euippe daughter of Leucon son of
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	Cephissus (Boeotia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pausanias (9.38.7) registra una tradición de Theban que el río Cephissus fluyó debajo de una montaña y entró en antes el mar hasta que Heracles cegó el paso y divirtió el agua en el llano de Orchomenian; pero él no lo cree.
		Un hijo mortal de Cephissus era Eteocles de la hija de Euippe del hijo de Leucon de Athamas.
		Cephissus era también padre del narciso según Ovid transforma (3.342), Hyginus (271), y Thebaid de Statius (7.340), madre de los narcisos que era una náyade de otra manera desconocida nombrada Liriope según Ovid.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ce/Cephissus%20%28Boeotia%29.htm (345 words)

	Cephissus Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	The Naiades (Naiads) - Nymphs of Fresh Water in Greek Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The town of Lilaea, in Phocis, was named for Lilaea, the Naiad of the Cephissus River.
		After Zeus carried off the Naiad, Aegina (daughter of the river god, Asopus), to the island of Oenome, the island was reamed Aegina.
		Lilaea - daughter of the Cephissus River - town of Lilaea named after her.
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		One meaning of the name Cephissus is a Greek river god, the father of
		Another meaning of the name Cephissus is a man who was changed into a sea monster by
		A third meaning for the name Cephissus is three famous rivers in Greece: in Attica near
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	PHOCIS - Encyclopedia Britannica - PHOCIS - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The restriction of their territory was due to the hostility of their neighbours of Boeotia and Thessaly, the latter of whom in the 6th century even carried their raids into the Cephissus valley.
		During the Persian invasion of 48o the Phocians at first joined in the national defence, but by their irresolute conduct at Thermopylae lost that position for the Greeks; in the campaign of Plataea they were enrolled on the Persian side.
		In 457 an attempt to extend their influence to the head waters of the Cephissus in the territory of Doris brought a Spartan army into Phocis in defence of the " metropolis of the
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	Events: Diaspason - Marina Rosenfeld
		Biennial) and Cephissus landscape, which was commissioned by Creative
		Garden, as part of the reopening of that space in September 2002.
		Cephissus was the name of the water, and the spirit of the water,
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	NARCISSUS: from Greek mythology, the son of the river god Cephissus (Part of a free multimedia music video show.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Narcissus -- in Greek mythology, the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Leiriope; he was distinguished for his beauty.
		His mother was told that he would have a long life, provided he never looked upon his own features.
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	Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) by Chris Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Greek forces lined up with their left flank based on Chaeronea itself and their right flank covered by marshes lying along the river Cephissus.
		The Greek forces were aligned with the Athenians on their left flank, other Allied Hoplites in the centre and the Thebans on the right wing.
		The river Cephissus should run down the right flank of the table as seen from the Greek side.
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	Narcissus -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		In Greek mythology, a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection.
		He was the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Leriope.
		His mother was told by a seer that he would have a long life, provided he never saw his own reflection.
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	ANISTORITON: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Almogavars seem to have been willing enough to entrust the task of leading them to others, even knights such as Roger Deslaur, to whom they gave the leadership of the Duchy of Athens, which had been left empty at the death of the hapless Gautier de Brienne.
		Deslaur was Catalan, but he also happened to be in the latter's service, and was one of several knights taken captive at the Battle of the Cephissus.
		During their expedition to the East, the Almogavars felt it necessary to declare war officially on the Byzantine Empire, a gesture that resulted in the assassination of their envoys.
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