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DRYMEA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Drumaia, (Paus), Drumos (Herod.), Drumia (Steph. B. (Drymiae, Liv.).
A frontier town of Phocis, on the side of Doris, whence it is included in the
limits of Doris by Livy. It was one of the Phocian towns destroyed by the army
of Xerxes. Pausanias describes it as 80 stadia from Amphicleia: but this number
appears to be an error of the copyists, since in the same passage he says that
Amphicleia was only 15 stadia from Tithronium, and Tithronium 15 stadia from Drymaea,
which would make Drymaea only 35 stadia from Amphicleia. He also speaks of an
ancient temple of Demeter at Drymaea, containing an upright statue of the goddess
in stone, in whose honour the annual festival of the Thesmophoria was celebrated.
Its more ancient name is said to have been Nauboleis, which was derived from Naubolus,
an ancient Phocian hero, father of Iphitus. (Hom. Il. ii. 518.) According to Leake
the site of Drymaea is indicated by some ruins, situated midway between Kamares
and Glunista, and occupying a rocky point of the mountain on the edge of the plain.
Some of the towers remain nearly entire. The masonry is generally of the third
order, but contains some pieces of the polygonal kind; the space enclosed is a
triangle, of which none of the sides is more than 250 yards. At the summit is
a circular acropolis of about two acres, preserving the remains of an opening
into the town.
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
A town in Phocis, a little south of the Cephissus.
Probably on the frontier with Doris; located on S foothills of Mt.
Kallidromos, on the side road to Glounista village. Several inscriptions are built
into a church in the village (IG IX 1.226-23 refers to the name). Drymaia was
burned by the Persians in 480 B.C.
The citadel was on a projecting spur, the lower town in the plain
to the S, where the walls can be traced around an area of ca. 0.20 sq. km. Among
the foundations in the plain are some that Frazer conjectured may have belonged
to a temple; Pausanias (10.33.12) mentions a temple and festival of Demeter Thesmophoros,
with an archaic cult-statue. Sherds run into Roman Imperial times. The walls are
well preserved on the summit and S slopes of the hill. The masonry is massive
trapezoidal; some towers still stand 7-8 m high. Loopholes preserved in the middle
of the field face may have been designed for bolt-throwing artillery (oxybeleis);
for the existing circuit, like many others in Phokis, seems to date from the last
third of the 4th c. There is a gate (partly ancient) in the cross wall separating
the acropolis from the city, and traces of another gate seem to be preserved in
the E wall, at the foot of the acropolis. .
F.E. Winter, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Sep 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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