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Lamía , city (1991 pop. 44,084), capital of Fthiótis prefecture, E central Greece. It is a transportation hub and an agricultural center. Founded about the 5th cent. BC, it was the chief city of the small region of Malis and developed as an ally of Athens. It gave its name to the Lamian War (323-322 BC), waged by the confederate Greeks against Antipater, the Macedonian general, who took refuge in the city and was besieged there for several months. Antipater conquered (322 BC) the confederates at Crannon, near Larissa. Lamía was known as Zituni from the 10th to the 19th cent.

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lamia a mythical monster supposed to have the body of a woman, and to prey on human beings and suck the blood of children. The word is used in early translations of the Bible for Isaiah 34:15 (where the Authorized Version has ‘screech owl’, with marginal alternative ‘night monster’) and Lamentations 4:3 (where the Authorized Version has ‘sea monsters’ or ‘sea calves’). Lamia comes via Latin from Greek, denoting a carnivorous fish or mythical monster.

In Keats's poem of this name, the serpent Lamia is transformed into a beautiful woman and wins the love of Lycius. At their wedding feast in Corinth her real nature is recognized by the sage Apollonius: he challenges her by her name, and she reverts to her true form, vanishing with a shriek of anguish.

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