Trachis was a landscape in ancient Greece. It was situated south of the river Spercheios. Trachis was populated by the Malians. The Spercheios (Greek: Σπερχειός, Latin: Spercheus) is a river in Thessaly, Greece. ...

Its main town was also called Trachis until 426 B.C., when it became Heraclea Trachis. It is located in the west of the Thermopylae. Today the town is called Iraklia. Near this place archaeologists discovered tombs from the mycenaean period. Thermopylae (Ancient & Katharevousa Greek Θερμοπύλαι, Demotic Θερμοπύλες) is a mountain pass in Greece. ... Mycenaean Greece, the last phase of Bronze Age Greece, is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of ancient Greece. ...

According to Greek mythology Trachis was the home of Ceyx and Alcyone. Heracles went to Trachis after the death of Eunomus. The town is mentioned by Homer and for the last time in antiquity by Pausanias. Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... Ceyx is a genus of kingfisher, as is Halcyon. ... Alcyone was a Greek demi-goddess, sometimes regarded as one of the Pleiades. ... Statue of Heracles In Greek mythology, Heracles, or Heraklês (glory of Hera, ηρακλης) was a divine hero, the demigod son of Zeus and Alcmene, and stepson of Amphitryon – Alcmenes rightful husband and grand-son of Perseus. ... Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... Pausanias was Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ...