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1. Homer, Iliad, Book 2. 498. (trans. A.T. Murray, The Loeb Classical Library).
"[..] Thespeia, Graea, and spacious Mycalessus; […]".
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, IX, 19.4. (trans. W.H.S. Jones) (The Loeb Classical Library)
"Both peoples agree that Mykalessus was so named because the cow lowed (emykesato) here that was guiding Cadmus and his host to Thebes. How Mycalessus was laid waste I have related in that part of my history that deals with the Athenians. On the way to the coast of Mycalessus is a sanctuary of Mycalessian Demeter. They say that each night it is shut up and opened again by Heracles, and that Heracles is one of what are called the Idaean Dactyls".
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, I. 23.3. (trans. W.H.S. Jones) (The Loeb Classical Library)
"[…] He also put into the Chalcidic Euripus, where the Boeotians had an inland town Mycalessus, marched up to this town form the coast and took it. Of the inhabitants the Thracians put to the sword not only the combatants but also the women and children. I have evidence to bring. All the Boeotian towns which the Thebans sacked were inhabited in my time, as the people escaped just before the capture; so if the foreigners had not exterminated the Mycalessians the survivors would have afterwards reoccupied the town".
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