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Here's a nice story. A man, now living in New Zealand, wants to visit the place where he spent his youth, more than sixty years ago. His granddaughter will come with them. He remembers the temple of Apollo of Ptoion (Πτώιον, Πτῷον, Πτῶν), east of Lake Kopais, but cannot find it on the maps.
Neither can I. Does someone have exact Google Earth coordinates of the three terraced sanctuary? Thanks!
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Ptoum
(Πτώιον/Ptṓion, Πτῷον/Ptôion, Πτῶν/Ptôn). Mountain range in north-eastern Boeotia, stretching east of Lake Copais to the Gulf of Euboea (cf. Boeotia, map), height in the east reaching 781 m (Petalás), in the west the main massif at 725 m (Hagia Pelagia). Below this to the west, at the crossing of important pass roads by the powerful spring of Perdikovrysi near Acraephia, was the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, whose oracle was said never to lie (Paus. 9,23,7). Ptous was the name of a loc…
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Fell, Martin (Münster). " Ptoum." Brill’s New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider. Brill Online , 2012. Reference. 23 August 2012 <http://static.ribo.brill.semcs.net/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/ptoum-e1012850>
He needs to find "Hagia Pelagia".
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