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Πτῴου. Mount Ptous was said to be named from a son of Athamas and Themisto (Apollodorus i. 9. 2). It is a range with three peaks (τρικάρηνον, Pind. fr. 70 ap. Strabo 412) between Lake Copais and the Euboic sea. On a conspicuous hill connected with it by a ridge is the ruined acropolis of Acraephia (Paus. ix. 23. 5 with Frazer), north of the Athamantian plain (cf. vii. 197. 1 n.). Fifteen stadia away from Acraephia, in a little valley beneath the true summit of Mount Ptous (Mount Palagia), was the temple of Apollo, excavated by the French School (1885-6, 1891). For an account of it cf. Frazer, v. 100-3.

The oracle declined after the destruction of Thebes (335 B. C., Paus. ix. 23. 6), and disappeared before the days of Plutarch (Mor. 412-14).

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