Lamia

Lamia is a Greek city in the center of Greece. According to the 2001 census, 50,551 people lived there. Lamia is built at the foot of the hill on the top of which there is a castle. During the Middle Ages Lamia was named Zitouni but today is named with its ancient name, Lamia. Around Lamia there is a big plain, so Lamia is an agricultural city. At the side of plain there are many tall mountains. They are named Timphristos, Oiti and Othris.

Lamia Media

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  The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, c. 1890), inspired by Keats's Lamia, depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman

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  Lamia (second version), with snakeskin on her lap, John William Waterhouse (1909)

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  A lamia-like creature on the cover of Other Worlds, November 1949.

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  A 17th-century depiction of Lamia from Edward Topsell's The History of Four-Footed Beasts