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Myonia

  or Myon (Muonia, Muon, Eth. Muoneus). A town of the Locri Ozolae, situated on the most difficult of the passes leading from aetolia into Locris. (Thuc. iii. 101.) Pausanias describes it as a small town (polisma), situated upon a hill 30 stadia from Amphissa inland, containing a grove and an altar of the gods called Meilichii, and above the town a temple of Poseidon. (Paus. x. 38. § 8, comp. vi. 19. § 4.) Leake (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 592) and other authorities place Myonia at Aghia Thymia, or Athymia, a small village, containing Hellenic remains, distant 1 1/2 hour from Salona (Amphissa) on the road to Galaxidhi on the coast; but this cannot be correct, as, according to the passage in Pausanias, Myonia lay further inland than Amphissa. (Ano men huper Amphisses pros epeiron Muonia . . . Outoi (including the Muoneis) men de huperoikousin Amphisses, epi thalasses de Oiantheia). Accordingly Kiepert places Myonia in his map N. of Amphissa, on the road from the latter place to Cytinium in Doris.

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

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