Tithronium
38°40′31″N 22°34′52″E / 38.67517°N 22.58105°E Tithronium or Tithronion (Ancient Greek: Τιθρώνιον),[1] or Tethronium or Tethronion (Τεθρώνιον), was a frontier town of ancient Phocis, on the side of Doris. Livy, who calls it Tritonon, describes it as a town of Doris,[2] but all other ancient writers place it in Phocis. During the Greco-Persian Wars, it was destroyed by the army of Xerxes I together with the other Phocian towns in 480 BCE.[3] It is placed by Pausanias in the plain at the distance of 15 stadia from Amphicleia.[4]
Its site has been located at a place called Palaiokastro (old castle).[5][6]
References edit
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 28.7.
- ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 8.33.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "3.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 10. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 10.33.11
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Tithronium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.