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AKYFAS (Ancient city) PARNASSOS
Pindus (Pindos), one of the towns of the tetrapolis of Doris, situated
upon a river of the same name, which flows into the Cephissus near Lilaea. It
was also called Akuphas, as we learn from Strabo and from Theopompus (ap. Steph.
B. s. v. Akuphas). In one passage Strabo says that Pindus lay above Erineus, and
in another he places it in the district of Oetaea; it is, therefore, probable
that the town stood in the upper part of the valley, near the sources of the river
in the mountain. (Strab. ix. pp. 427, 434; Scymn. Ch. 591; Schol, ad Pind. Pyth.
i. 121; Mel. ii. 3 ; Plin. iv. 7. s. 13; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 92.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
CHARADRA (Ancient city) PARNASSOS
Eth. Charadraios. A city of Phocis, and one of the Phocian towns destroyed
by Xerxes, is described by Pausanias as situated 20 stadia from Lilaea, upon a
lofty and precipitous rock. He further states that the inhabitants suffered from
a scarcity of water, which they obtained from the torrent Charadrus, a tributary
of the Cephissus, distant three stadia from the town. Dodwell and Gell place Charadra
at Mariolates, at the foot of Parnassus, but Leake places it at Suvala, for two
reasons:--1. Because the distance of 20 stadia is nearly that of Suvala from Paleokastro,
the site of Lilaea, whereas Mariolates is more distant; and 2. The torrent at
the latter does not join the Cephissus.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
KYTINION (Ancient city) FOKIDA
Cytinium (Kutinion; Kuteinion, Ptol.), one of the four towns of Doris,
more frequently mentioned in history than the other towns of the Tetrapolis. This
appears to have been owing to its situation, which rendered it a place of great
military importance. Its site corresponds to Gravia, which stands exactly at the
northern entrance of the pass leading from the valley of Doris to the plain of
Amphissa, in the middle of the isthmus included between the Maliac and Crissaean
gulfs. The defile is formed by the ravines of two torrents flowing in opposite
directions; namely, that of Gravia, which joins the Apostolia, near the union
of the latter with the Cephissus, and that of another stream which crosses the
plain of Amphissa into the Crissaean bay. The position of the town, thus commanding
this defile, illustrates the intended expedition of Demosthenes from Naupactus
in B.C. 426. This commander proposed, if he had been successful over the Aetolians,
to have marched through the Locri Ozolae, leaving Parnassus on the right, to Cytinium
in Doris, and from thence to have descended into Phocis, whose inhabitants were
to have joined him in invading Boeotia. (Thuc. iii. 95.) When Eurylochus, the
Spartan, shortly after the failure of the expedition of Demosthenes, was about
to march from Delphi against Naupactus, he deposited at Cytinium the hostages
he had received from the Locrians. (Thuc. iii. 101, 102.) In B.C. 338, Cytinium
was seized by Philip, from whence he marched upon Amphissa (Philochor. ap. Dionys.
p. 742). (Comp. Scylax, p. 24; Strab. ix. p. 427, x. p. 476; Plin. iv. 7. s. 13;
Steph. B. s. v. Kutina; Ptol. iii. 15. § 15; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii.
p. 92, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
VION (Ancient city) FOKIDA
Boium (Boion), a town of Doris, and one of the original towns of the
Doric tetrapolis, the ruins of which are placed by Leake near Mariolates. (Thuc.
i. 107; Scymn. Ch. 592; Strab. ix. p. 427; Scylax, p. 24; Conon, Narr. 27; Plin.
iv. 7. s. 13 ; Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 741; Ptol. iii. 15. § 15 ; Steph. B. s. v.;
Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 91, 94.)
KYTINION (Ancient city) FOKIDA
The most important of the four cities of Doris in Greece. According to Thucydides, it was situated to the west of Parnassus, and on the borders of the Locri Ozolae.
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