14 Facts About Eretria

Eretria is a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf.

Eretria had a strong agriculture power, but it is unknown where they planted their crops and fed cattle.

Eretria controlled the Aegean islands of Andros, Tenos and Ceos.

Eretria was involved in the Greek colonisation and founded the colonies of Pithekoussai and Cumae in Italy together with Chalcis.

The city was destroyed and Eretria lost her lands in Boeotia and her Aegean dependencies.

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Eretria's planted colonies in the northern Aegean, on the coast of Macedon, in Italy and Sicily.

Eretria was rebuilt shortly afterwards and took part with 600 hoplites in the Battle of Plataea.

The ancient writer Plutarch mentions a woman of Eretria, "who was kept by Artabanus" at the Persian court of Artaxerxes, who facilitated the audience that Themistocles obtained with the Persian king.

However, under Macedonian rule Eretria experienced a new period of prosperity which lasted until the 3rd century as attested by many inscriptions, by extensions to the west and south sections of the walls and by many other private and public new buildings including the circus.

From 318 to 312 BC King Cassander lived at Eretria and commissioned the painter Philoxenus of Eretria to paint the battle of Issus, of which the famous Alexander Mosaic in the Naples museum is a copy and the wall paintings in Phillip's tomb at Vergina are connected.

Eretria eventually took the town during a night-time assault during which the citizens surrendered.

Eretria became an object of contention between the Romans and Macedonians, but was given partial independence and experienced a new period of prosperity.

Temple of Apollo Daphnephoros is the most important and wider known monument of Eretria, featuring sparkling and sharp sculptures on the pediments, their postures well in advance of experiments in Athens of the time.

Municipality Eretria was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following two former municipalities, that became municipal units:.