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  Cithaeron - Encyclopedia.com
The rest of the opera is set in a marsh at the foot of Mount Cithaeron, where Platee and her entourage of frogs and cuckoos live.
As far as the basic sequence of events are concerned (Oedipus is abandoned on Mt Cithaeron as a baby; he is rescued by a shepherd; he grows up in Corinth; he kills Laius at the crossroads; and so on), it is reasonable...
Amphion is the son of Antiope by Zeus; dragged from his mother and exposed on Mount Cithaeron, he avenged her, built the walls of Thebes, and became king.
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