Tilphussa

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Tilphussa (Template:Langx Tilphoũssa) is a spring in Boeotia. Tiresias died after he drank water from this spring. Strabo locates the deadly spring below the slopes of Tilphossium (Script error: No such module "Lang"., near Haliartus and Alalcomenae; he mentions the sanctuary of Tiresias and the temple of Tilphoussian Apollo, unique to this site.[1] Pausanias noted that a temple consecrated to Praxidike was in the vicinity of Tiresias's tomb. The manuscript tradition of Plutarch's Life of Lysander offers a unique report of a spring Kissousa at Haliartus, in which the infant Dionysus was washed; this must be a scribal error for Tilphousa.[2]

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  1. Strabo 'Geography' 9. 2. 27 and 36
  2. Edward Dodwell, A classical and topographical tour through Greece: during the years 1801, 1805 and 1806 (London, 1819) Volume 1, p. 246 attributed the error to Plutarch himself.

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