Harma (Ancient Greek: Ἅρμα) was a town of ancient Boeotia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad,[1] which is said to have been so called, either because the chariot of Adrastus broke down here, or because the chariot of Amphiaraus disappeared in the earth at this place.[2][3][4] Strabo describes it as a deserted village in the territory of Tanagra near Mycalessus; and Pausanias speaks of the ruins of Harma and Mycalessus as situated on the road from Thebes to Chalcis. Claudius Aelianus speaks of a lake called Harma.[5]
References
Homer. Iliad. 2.499.
Didym. and Eustath. ad Il.; Strabo. Geographica. ix. p.404. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Pausanias. Description of Greece. 9.19.4. , comp. 1.34.2;
Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia 3.45
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