Tithronium

Coordinates: 38°40′31″N 22°34′52″E / 38.67517°N 22.58105°E / 38.67517; 22.58105 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

  1. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  2. ↑ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 28.7.
  3. ↑ Herodotus. Histories. 8.33.
  4. ↑ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 10.3.2. , 10.33.11
  5. ↑ ((Cite DARE|29478}}
  6. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.

 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.

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