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		Trachis is located just west of the western-most tip of the island of Euboea, north of Delphi.
		The settlement formerly known as "trachis" was renamed "heraclea trachis/trachinia" by the spartans.
		In antiquity the settlement was famous for being at the base of the mountain where Hercules died (mount Oeta) as well as being the place where the descendents of Hercules settled.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Trachis.html (267 words)

	Trachis - LoveToKnow 1911
		TRACHIS, a city of ancient Greece, situated at the head of the Malian Gulf in a small plain between the rivers Asopus and Melas, and enclosed by the mountain wall of Oeta which here extended close to the sea and by means of the Trachinian Cliffs completely commanded the main road from Thessaly.
		Strangely enough, it is not recorded what part Trachis played in the defence of Thermopylae against Xerxes.
		Its military importance was recognized in 427 B.C. by the Spartans, who sent a garrison to guard the Trachinian plain against the marauding highland tribes of Oeta and built a citadel close by the Asopus gorge with the new name of Heraclea.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TRACHIS.htm (287 words)

	Ceyx & Alcyone 2, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		King Ceyx of Trachis (a city in Trachinia in southern Thessaly) and his wife Alcyone 2 were turned, some say, into birds by Zeus, because of their limitless pride.
		It was in his way to Trachis that Heracles 1 felt compelled to shoot the Centaur Nessus 2, when he tried to violate Heracles 1's wife Deianira 1 while ferrying her across the river Evenus.
		Having arrived to Trachis, Heracles 1, assisted by the Arcadians who accompanied him in his campaigns, conquered the Dryopians, a people living between the Sperchius River and Mount Parnasus, and killed their king Laogoras.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Ceyx.html (972 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Situated south of the river Spercheios, it was populated by the Malians.
		Trachis is located just west of the western-most tip of the island of Euboea, north of Delphi.
		The settlement formerly known as "trachis" was renamed "heraclea trachis/trachinia" by the spartans.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Trachis (279 words)

	TRACHIS: THE DEATH OF HERAKLES
		TRACHIS: THE DEATH OF When Herakles reached Trachis, he assembled an army for what would become his final campaign; many years earlier Eurytos, king of Oichalia in Euboia, had refused to give his daughter Iole to Herakles, and Herakles now wanted to punish Eurytos and win possession of Iole.
		The tragedy begins with Deianeira’s lament for the misfortunes which have troubled her ever since she came of age for marriage, beginning with her courtship by the river-god Acheloos and the terrible combat between Herakles and the river-god.
		In some accounts Poias, a local king, was passing by in search of his sheep and agreed to light the fire, and Herakles bequeathed his bow to him; usually it is Poias’ son Philoktetes who lights the pyre and receives the bow.
	www.greecetravel.com /greekmyths/argos14.htm (919 words)

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