Tegyra

Tegyra (Ancient Greek: Τεγύρα), also: Tegyrae (Ancient Greek: Τεγύραι - Tegyrai) was the site of an oracle of Apollo in ancient Greece. It was located north of Lake Copais, 5 km northeast of Orchomenus in Boeotia. Its location has been identified as that of the present village Pyrgos.^[1] It was the site of the Battle of Tegyra in 375 BC.

References

↑ TEGYRA (Pyrgos) Boiotia, Greece, entry in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites.

External links

Viotikos kosmos, ancient Tegyra at Wikidot (Greek)

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