Teumessus
Teumessus or Teumessos was a town in ancient Boeotia, situated in the plain of Thebes, upon a low rocky hill of the same name.
Teumessus or Teumessos was a town in ancient Boeotia, situated in the plain of Thebes, upon a low rocky hill of the same name. The name of this hill appears to have been also given to the range of mountains separating the plain of Thebes from the valley of the Asopus. Teumessus was upon the road from Thebes to Chalcis, at the distance of 100 stadia from the former. It is mentioned in one of the Homeric hymns with the epithet λεχεποίη or grassy, an epithet justified by the rich plain which surrounds the town. Teumessus is celebrated in the epic legends, especially on account of the Teumessian fox, which ravaged the territory of Thebes. The only building at Teumessus mentioned by Pausanias was a temple of Athena Telchinia, without any statue. Pausanias also mentions that Zeus hid Europa in Teumessus. The torrent Thermodon ran down Mount Hypatus on its way to Teumessus.
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Worth seeing in and around Teumessus
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Mount Sagmatas is a mountain of Boeotia, Greece. In antiquity, it was called Hypatos and hosted a temple of Zeus.
4.4 km · mountain in Thiva municipality, Greece · Wikipedia
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Getting to Teumessus
- Airports
- Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 68 km · Thessaloniki Macedonia (SKG), 242 km · Santorini (JTR), 286 km
- Spata-Artemida → Teumessus2203 km · quickest by air, 12h 14m · €500–760
- Thessaloniki → Teumessus1976 km · quickest by air, 14h 16m · €490–760
- Santorini Island → TeumessusTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Teumessus
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Teumessus. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Teumessus
Teumessus is 51 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.