Hysia (beetle)
Hysiae or Hysiai () or Hysia (Ὑσία) may refer to: * Hysia (Arcadia), a town of ancient Arcadia, Greece * Hysiae (Argolis), a garrison town in Greece southwest of Argos, where two battle were fought: ** Battle of Hysiae (c.669 BC) ** Battle of Hysiae (417 BC) * Hysiae (Boeotia), a village in Boeotia, was not far from Plataea and is mentioned by Thucydides * ''Hysia'' (beetle), a genus of ladybird in family Coccinellidae Coccinellidae () is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from . They are commonly known as ladybugs in North America and ladybirds in Great Britain. Some entomologists prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as they ...

Hysia (Arcadia)
Hysia ( grc, Ὑσία) was a town of ancient Arcadia mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephan of Byzantium ( la, Stephanus Byzantinus; grc-gre, Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD), was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethni .... Its site in ancient Arcadia is unlocated. References Populated places in ancient Arcadia Former populated places in Greece Lost ancient cities and towns {{AncientArcadia-geo-stub ...
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Hysiae (Argolis)
Hysiae or Hysiai ( grc, Ὑσιαί), also Hysia (Ὑσία), was a garrison town of ancient Argolis, also called the Argeia, southern Greece during the archaic period. It was located to the southwest of Argos and east of Tegea, on the road between them, at the foot of Mount Parthenium, not far from the Argive border with Laconia. In , the First Battle of Hysiae was fought between the Spartans and the Argives, who won to repulse a Spartan invasion of Argolis. It appears to have been destroyed by the Argives, along with Tiryns, Mycenae, and the other towns in the Argeia, after the Greco-Persian Wars; but it was afterwards restored, and was occupied by the Argives in the Peloponnesian War as a frontier-fortress. During the Peloponnesian War, in 417 BCE, the Second Battle of Hysiae was fought, again between the Spartans and the Argives, and resulted in a decisive Spartan victory. The Spartans captured Hysiae and destroyed it; all captured male citizens were executed. Its ...
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Battle Of Hysiae (c
Battle of Hysiae can refer to: * Battle of Hysiae (c.669 BC) between the Spartans and the Argives * Battle of Hysiae (417 BC) The second Battle of Hysiae between the armies of Argos and Sparta took place in 417 BC during the Peloponnesian War, directly following Sparta's decisive defeat of the Argive/Athenian alliance in the Battle of Mantinea the year before. Ba ...

Battle Of Hysiae (417 BC)
The second Battle of Hysiae between the armies of Argos and Sparta took place in 417 BC during the Peloponnesian War, directly following Sparta's decisive defeat of the Argive/Athenian alliance in the Battle of Mantinea the year before. Battle The Spartan king Agis II invaded Argive territory after a pro-Spartan faction at Argos was evicted by an Athenian force under Alcibiades, whose mission was to establish democracy there. Agis did not manage to take the city of Argos but destroyed the walls that the Argives had begun to extend towards the sea. He then captured and destroyed the town and fortress of Hysiae and had its male population executed. The campaign is described by the historians Thucydides (5.83.2), who actually fought in the war, and Diodorus Siculus (12.81.1), who wrote in the 1st century BC, over two hundred years later. Thucydides says that the Spartans marched against Argos in the winter of 418–417 BC with all their allies, but failed to take the city of A ...
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Hysiae (Boeotia)
Hysiae or Hysiai ( grc, Ὑσιαί), also Hysia (Ὑσία), was a town of ancient Boeotia, in the Parasopia (Boeotia), Parasopia, at the northern foot of Mount Cithaeron, and on the high road from Thebes, Greece, Thebes to ancient Athens, Athens. It was said to have been a colony from Hyria (Boeotia), Hyria, and to have been founded by Nycteus, father of Antiope (mother of Amphion), Antiope. Herodotus says that both Hysiae and Oenoe (Attica), Oenoe were ancient Attica, Attic deme, demoi when they were taken by the Boeotians in 507 BCE. It probably, however, belonged to Plataea. Oenoe was recovered by the Athenians; but, as Mt. Cithaeron was the natural boundary between Attica and Boeotia, Hysiae continued to be a Boeotian town. Hysiae is mentioned in the operations which preceded the Battle of Plataea. Hysiae was in ruins in the time of Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias, who noticed there an unfinished temple of Apollo and a sacred well. Hysiae is mentioned also by Euripides a ...
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Hysia (beetle)
Hysiae or Hysiai () or Hysia (Ὑσία) may refer to: * Hysia (Arcadia), a town of ancient Arcadia, Greece * Hysiae (Argolis), a garrison town in Greece southwest of Argos, where two battle were fought: ** Battle of Hysiae (c.669 BC) ** Battle of Hysiae (417 BC) * Hysiae (Boeotia), a village in Boeotia, was not far from Plataea and is mentioned by Thucydides * ''Hysia'' (beetle), a genus of ladybird in family Coccinellidae Coccinellidae () is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from . They are commonly known as ladybugs in North America and ladybirds in Great Britain. Some entomologists prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as they ...