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Haliartus was a city in Boeotia
The city according to Pausanias was named after Haliartus, the son of Thesander the son of Sisyphus.
Tolmides was defeated 447 BC at Haliartus.
It was attacked by the Spartans under the command of Lysander. In the battle of Haliartus, 395 BC Lysander was killed by the Theban forces.
Sources
Pausanias 1.27.5, 3.5.3. 9.32.5, 9.33.1-4, 9.34.7, 10.35.2
Pausanias 9.33.1.4:
In Haliartus too there is the tomb of Lysander and a hero-shrine of Cecrops the son of Pandion.
Mount Tilphusius and the spring called Tilphusa are about fifty stades away from Haliartus. The Greeks declare that the Argives, along with the sons of Polyneices, after capturing Thebes, were bringing Teiresias and some other of the spoil to the god at Delphi, when Teiresias, being thirsty, drank by the wayside of the Tilphusa, and forthwith gave up the ghost; his grave is by the spring.
They say that the daughter of Teiresias was given to Apollo by the Argives, and at the command of the god crossed with ships to the Colophonian land in what is now called Ionia. Manto there married Rhacius, a Cretan. The rest of the history of Teiresias is known to all as a tradition: the number of years it is recorded that he lived, how he changed from a woman to a man, and that Homer in the Odyssey1 represents Teiresias as the only one in Hades endowed with intelligence.
At Haliartus there is in the open a sanctuary of the goddesses they call Praxidicae (those who exact punishments). Here they swear, but they do not make the oath rashly. The sanctuary of the goddesses is near Mount Tilphusius. In Haliartus are temples, with no images inside, and without roofs. I could not discover either to whom these temples were built.
In the land of Haliartus there is a river Lophis. It is said that the land was originally arid and without water, so that one of the rulers came to Delphi and asked in what way they would find water in the land. The Pythian priestess, they say, commanded him to kill the man who should first meet him on his return to Haliartus. On his arrival he was met by his son Lophis, and at once smote the youth with his sword. Still living, the lad ran about, and where the blood ran water rose up from the earth. Wherefore the river is called Lophis.
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