ERYTHRAE (anc. geog.), a port town of Eolia, on the Corinthian bay. Another Erythrae of Boeotia, near Plataea and mount Cithaeron. A third Erythrae, a town of Ionia in the Hither Asia, situated in the peninsula, at its extremity, with a cognominal port. The Erythraeans laid claim to the Sibyl Herophile, as their country-woman, furnished thence Erythraea. Erythrae was famous for an ancient temple of Hercules.