Ascra

E168523

ancient village settlement

Ascra was an ancient village in Boeotia, Greece, best known as the hometown of the poet Hesiod.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Ascra canonical	3
Delium	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient village ⓘ settlement ⓘ
ancientEthnic	Ascrans ⓘ
associatedWithDeity	the Muses ⓘ surface form: Muses
associatedWithFeature	Heliconian springs ⓘ
characterizedAs	hard in summer ⓘ harsh in winter ⓘ never good ⓘ
country	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
culturalRegion	Boeotia ⓘ surface form: Boeotian Greece
describedBy	Hesiod ⓘ
hasType	rural community ⓘ
historicalStatus	ruined settlement ⓘ
knownFor	association with pastoral poetry ⓘ being the hometown of Hesiod ⓘ
languageSpoken	Ancient Greek ⓘ
locatedIn	Boeotia ⓘ Greece ⓘ
locatedNear	Mount Helicon ⓘ
mentionedIn	Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ surface form: Theogony Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ surface form: Works and Days
near	Orchomenus ⓘ Thespiae ⓘ
notableResident	Hesiod ⓘ
partOf	Boeotian League ⓘ
referencedBy	Pausanias ⓘ Strabo ⓘ
region	central Greece ⓘ
timePeriod	Archaic Greece ⓘ

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Boeotia → contains → Ascra ⓘ

Works of Hesiod → associatedPlace → Ascra ⓘ

Battle of Delium → location → Ascra ⓘ

this entity surface form: Delium

Mount Helicon → locatedNearAncientCity → Ascra ⓘ