Ταναγραία
Tanagraia, Tanagra
Translated by David Whitehead21 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A city [of that name].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ταναγραία· πόλις.
Betacode
*tanagrai/a: po/lis.
Notes
- In SE Boiotia, central Greece: OCD(4) s.v. (pp.1429-30); Barrington Atlas Map 59 grid B1.
Strictly speaking the name of the polis itself was Tanagra, and 'Tanagraia' an adjective (cf. tau 69) implying a feminine noun such as polis or chora (see e.g. Thucydides 4.76.4) -- or in other circumstances a woman (kappa 2087).
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