Cestria (Epirus)

Cestria or Kestria (Ancient Greek: Κεστρία),^[1] also known as Ilium or Ilion (Ἴλιον), or Troja (Τροΐα),^[2] was a town in ancient Epirus.^[3] Its district was called Cestrine or Kestrine (Κεστρίνη) and Kestrinia (Κεστρινία),^[4] and was located in Chaonia, separated from Thesprotia by the river Thyamis.^[5] It is said to have received its name from Cestrinus, son of Helenus and Andromache,^[6] having been previously called Cammania or Kammania (Καμμανία).^[7] The principal town of the district was Cestria,^[8] but its more usual name appears to have been Ilium or Troja, in memory of the Trojan colony of Helenus.^[9] In the neighbourhood are those fertile pastures, which were celebrated in ancient times for the Cestrinic oxen.^[10] The inhabitants of the district were called Κεστρηνοί by the poet Rhianus.^[11]

The city is located near the modern Filiates, Greece.^[12]

References

1. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
2. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
3. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 3.96.
4. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §K351.22
5. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 1.46.
6. Pausanias (1918). "11.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 2.23.6.
7. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
8. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.1.
9. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Τροΐα.
10. Hesych. sub voce Κεστρινικοὶ Βοές; Schol. ad Aristoph. Pac. 924.
11. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Χαῦνοι.
12. Bell, Robert E. (1989). Place-names in Classical Mythology: Greece. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-507-8.

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cestrine". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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