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 1152 THEBAE BOEOTTAE. THEBAE BOEOTIAE. TABLE OF THE SEVEN GATES OF THEBES ACCORDING TO SEVEN WRITEUS. Aeschylus. Sept. c.Th. 360. EUEIPIDES. Phoeniss. 1120. Pausanias. IX. 8. § 4. APOLI/ODGEUS. III. 6. § e. Statius. Thob. VIII. 353, sqq. NONNUS. Dionys. v. 69, sqq. Hyginus. 69. cf. 11. 1. n p 1 T i 6 e s. iravo-e'ATji'OS. MeAaviTTTTOS. i. Up t T l56!. 'AjUf^tctpao?. ao-rjfxa OTrAa. 2. HpotTi'Ses. 3. npotTi'^e!. TuSeii;. 'A/i</)iopao!. cf. III. 6, 8, C. MeAariTTiro?. 1. Proctides. Hypseus. 5. Ztji/os (?). cf. Schol. Lyco))li. 1204. Aslycratia. 2. 'HA.c'KTpat. Kairavev';. noAu<J)Oi'T7)S. (5. "HAeKTpai. Kairavev^. yiya^; 7r)yefi)?. 1. 'H Ae'xTpa t. (j. 'II AeKxpai. napyeyoTraios. 5. Electrae. Dryas. 4. 'HAeKTpai. Ck'odosa. 3. NrjtTai. 'EtcokAos. a.vr]p oirAiTi)! KAip.aK. M67apeii5. 1. NT/l'Tai.^ riaptfefon-atos. 'AraKavTrj. 3. N-^irai. IIwAui/ct/cr);. ('EreoKAT);.) 4. _N ^ I T at. 'iTTTro/xefiiuv. 2. Neitae. Eteocles. 2. ' V^pf/.dujvo^ (V). AstyHome. t.'Ov/cas. 'iTTTroz-ie'Siof. Tvc/jMi/' JTupiri'doi'. Yttc'pjSios. 5. Kp T) i-ai ai. noAui'61K7)5. rioTi'ttiSe? TTwAot. 'Et€okA^!. 4. Kpiji'aiai. ('Iirjro;u.e'6wr.) 7. Kpr)i/iSes. TuSeiis (■?). 7. Culmiua D i r c a e a. Menoeceus. Haemou. x. 651. 1. 'OyKairi (i s i atrip t ov kXlixul irTJJa;). Chius. 5. B p p a 1 a t. napefi'OTraZo;. "AxTUp. 3. 'nyvv I a I. 'liriTOiieSuiv. TraroTTTTj;. 7. 'Ily liy t a t. (napSei'OTraios.) 2. 'nyvYiai. KaTTat'eus. 1. Ogygiae. Creon. Echion, x. 494. 7. Kpdvou. Ogygia. Q.'Ofi.oK(otSe<;. 'A|U.(J)iapao?. a-jjfiaS' OUKETT^l'. Aao-PcV-r)?. 1. '0)i Ao) tSes. Ae'oi'TO! Se'pos. 'ft Tai/ tlpoiJ-ri' 6. "OnoAiotfies 'A(jl(lopao? (?). cf. Paus. ix. 8. §3. 1. '0/U.0 AcoiS 6 s ASpao"ros. 3. Homoloidos. Haemon. 3. 'A<{)poSt'Ti)s. Chloris. 7 'E |3 6 n a I. IIoAuveiKT)!. 'ExeoKXij?. 7. 'E^So^ai. "ASpatTTO?. ij&pa. 5. 'Y 1^ I (T T a t. (*A6paiTT0?.) (Albs vipicTTOv Upov.) 5. 'Y>|/io-Tai. noAui'€i./<)(s. 6. Hypsistae Eurymedon. 5. 'Apeojs. Thera. (Neaipa.) Of the other four gates, the HomoluiJes is also the same in all the five writers. Of the remaining three Aeschylus does not mention their proper numes, but specifies two by their locality, one as near the temple of Athena Onca, and the other as the Northern gate (Boppalai -nvXai), and describes the last simply as the Seventh gate. The names of these three gates are nearly the same in the other four writers, the one near the temple of Athena Onca being called Crenaeae, and in Statius Culmina Dircaea, the Northern gate Ogygiae, and the Seventh gate Hypsistae, — Euripides, however, also giving the name of Seventh to the last -mentioned gate. Having described the position of the Electrae, Proetides, and Neitae, it remains to speak of the position of the other four, which we shall take in the order of Aeschylus. The fourth gate was pro- bably situated on the western side of the city, and was called Crenaeae, because it was near one of the fountains of Dirce, now called Uapairop-n., situated upon the right bank of the river. Near that foun- tain was a hill, called by the Greeks oyKos, whence Athena derived the name of Onca. Accordingly Statius, in calling the fourth gate Cuhnina Dir- caea, connects both the fountain and the hill. Non- nns, who calls this gate Oncaea, describes it at the same time as situated towards the west. It is usually stated, on the authority of Hesychius, that the Oncaean gate is the same as the Ogygian; but this identification throws everything into confusion, while the change of three letters, proposed by Forch- hammer, brings the statement of Hesychius into accordance with the other writers. ("O^/cas 'M7]vZ.s Tos 'OyKaias [instead of '£171/7105] irvAas Ae7ei, i. e. Aesch. Sept. c. Theb. 486.) The fifth gate was called Ogygian from Ogygus, the most ancient king of Thebes, in whose time the deluge is said to have taken place. Now there is no part of Thebes more exposed to inundation than the north of the city between the gates Neitae and Proe- tides, where the torrent Strophia descends into the plain. Here we may probably place the Ogygian gate, which Aeschylus calls the Northern, from its position. The exact position of the sixth gate, called Homo- loides, and of the seventh, designated by its number in Aeschylus and Euripides, but by the name of Hypsistae in the other writers, is doubtful. Forch- hammer maintains that these gates were in the southern part of the city, one on either side of the gate Electrae; but r.one of his arguments are con- clusive; and the position of these gates must be left uncertain. Pausanias relates that, after the victoiy of the Epigoni at Glisas, some of the Thebans fled to Homole in Thessaly; and that the gate, through which the exiles re-entered the city, when they were recalled by Thersander, was named the Homoloides, from Homole in Thessaly (ix. 8. §§ 6, 7). Forch- hammer thinks that it would have been supposed that the exiles entered the city by the same gate by which they quitted it; and as the gate leading to Glisas must have been either in the southern or