Kithairon is a mountain range ("No corner of Kithairon echoless", Oedipus Rex 440) about 10 mi (16 km) long, in central Greece, standing between Boeotia in the north and Attica in the south. It is mainly composed of limestone and rises to 4,623 ft (1,409 m). The range was the scene of many events in Greek mythology and was especially sacred to Dionysius. Oedipus was exposed on the mountain, while Aktaion and Pentheus were both dismembered on the mountain. Oedipus the King (also known as Oedipus Rex and Oedipus Tyrannos) is a Greek tragedy, written by Sophocles around 427 BC. The play was the second of Sophocles three Theban plays to be produced, but its events occur before those of Oedipus at Colonus or Antigone. ... Boeotia or Beotia (//, (Greek Βοιωτια; see also list of traditional Greek place names) was the central area of ancient Greece. ... Attica (in Greek: Αττική, Attike; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a periphery (subdivision) in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. ... Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ... // Greek mythology consists in part of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... Several people in history have been known by the name Dionysius: Dionysius of Syracuse, a tyrant Dionysius the Elder, a Greek mythological figure Dionysius the Areopagite, a citizen of Corinth who was converted by Paul of Tarsus Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, identified by some with a Georgian theologist Peter the... In Greek mythology, Actaeon, or Aktaion was a son of Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, a hunter who endured the wrath of Diana. ... In Greek mythology, Pentheus was a king of Thebes. ...

In historic times, the mountain acted as a backdrop to the Battle of Plataea of 479BC and was the scene of much skirmishing before the battle itself. In later times fortifications were built both at Plataea and Erithrae as the mountain formed the disputed natural border between Athens and Thebes. Combatants Greek city-states Persia Commanders Pausanias Mardonius† Strength 100,000 (Pompelus) 110,000 (Herodotus) 120,000 (Ctesias) 300,000 (Herodotus). ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

The people of Plataea personified the mountain as their primal king: "The Plataians know of no king except Asopos and Kithairon before him, holding that the latter gave his name to the mountain, the former to the river." (Pausanias 9.1.1). Pausanias was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ...

References

• Theoi.com: Kithairon

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