The Geography of Strabo, Vol. V (Loeb, Jones 1917)

silver mines at Athens. The whole of Euboea is much subject to earthquakes, but particularly the part near the strait, which is also subject to blasts of wind through subterranean passages, as are Boeotia and other places which I have already described at some length. And it is said that the city which bore the same name as the island was swallowed up by reason of a disturbance of this kind. This city is also mentioned by Aeschylus in his Glaucus Pontius: “Euboïs, about the bending shore of Zeus Cenaeus, near the very tomb of wretched Lichas.” In Aetolia, also, there is a place called by the same name, Chalcis: “and Chalcis near the sea, and rocky Calydon,” and in the present Eleian country: “and they went past Cruni and rocky Chalcis,” that is, Telemachus and his companions, when they were on their way back from Nestor’s to their homeland.

10. As for Eretria, some say that it was colonized from Triphylian Macistus by Eretrieus, but others say it was colonized from the Eretria at Athens, which is now a marketplace. There is also an Eretria near Pharsalus. In the Eretrian territory there was a city called Tamynae, sacred to Apollo; and the temple, which is near the strait, is said to have been founded by Admetus, at whose house the god served as a hired laborer for a year. In earlier times Eretria was called Melaneïs and Arotria. The village Amarynthus, which is seven stadia distant from the walls, belongs to this city.