Thryon
Thyron (Ancient Greek: Θρύον), sometimes Latinized as Thryum, or Thryoessa (Θρυόεσσα) was a town in Triphylia in ancient Elis, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad, where the town is noted to be in the dominions of Nestor.[1] The town is also noted in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.[2] Later in the Iliad, the poet describes Thyron was at the ford of the river Alpheius.[3] In yet another passage, Homer calls the town Thryoessa, places it upon a lofty hill, and relates how it withstood a siege by the Epeii during their war against the Eleans.[4] Strabo identified Thyron with the later Epitalium;[5] but the identity is uncertain.[6][7]
References
- ↑ Homer. Iliad. 2.592.
- ↑ Homer Hymn to Apollo,. 423
- ↑ Homer. Iliad. 11.710.
- ↑ Homer. Iliad. 11.7111-761.
- ↑ Strabo. Geographica. 8.3.24. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ↑ Juan José Torres Esbarranch (2001). Estrabón, Geografía libros VIII-X (in Spanish). Madrid: Gredos. p. 74, n. 207. ISBN 84-249-2298-0.
- ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.