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TOLOFON (Ancient city) PARNASSOS
Eth. Tolophonios. A town of the Locri Ozolae, possessing a large harbour according
to Dicaearchus (66; comp. Thuc. iii. 101; Steph. B. s. v.). According to Leake
it occupied the valley of Kiseli. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 620.)
A Lokrian city on the coast (harbor mentioned by Dion. Hall.) on the route of Eurylochos' march. It is in Vidavi (not, as officially, in Vitrinitsa). The fortification, triangular in plan, is well preserved.
L. Lerat, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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