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KNIMIDA (Mountain) LOKRIDA
Cnemis (Knemis), a range of mountains forming the boundary between
Phocis and the Epicnemidii Locri, who received their distinguishing name from
this mountain. Mount Cnemis was a continuation of Callidromus, with which it was
connected by a ridge, at the foot of which is the modern town of Pundonitza. (Strab.
ix. pp. 416, 425; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 66, 180.) A spur of this
mountain, running out into the sea, formed the promontory Cnemides (Knemides),
opposite the islands called Lichades and the Euboean promontory Cenaeum. Upon
this promontory stood a fortress, also called Cnemides, distant 20 stadia from
Thronium. It was near the modern Nikoraki. (Strab. ix. p. 426; Ptol. iii. 15.
§ 10; Mela, ii. 3. § 67 called Cnemis by Scylax, p. 23, and Plin. iv. 7. s. 12;
comp. Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 177.)
NARYX (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Narycium (Narukos, Naruch, Narycium, Eth. Narukios). A town of the
Opuntian Locrians, the reputed birthplace of Ajax, son of Oileus (Strab. ix. p.
425, Steph. B. s.v.), who is hence called by Ovid (Met. xiv. 468) Narycius heros.
In B.C. 395, Ismenias, a Boeotian commander, undertook an expedition against Phocis,
and defeated the Phocians near Naryx of Locris, whence we may conclude with Leake
that Naryx was near the frontier of Phocis. (Diod. xiv. 82.) In 352 Naryx was
taken by Phayllus, the Phocian commander. (Diod. xvi. 38.) It is placed by some
at Talanda, but by Leake at the small village of Kalapodhi, where there are a
few ancient remains. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 187.) As Locri in Bruttium
in Italy was, according to some of the ancients, a colony of Naryx (Virg. Aen.
iii. 399), the epithet of Narycian is frequently given to the Bruttian pitch.
(Virg. Georg. ii. 438; Colum. x. 386; Plin. xiv. 20. s. 25.)
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
THRONION (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Thronion: Eth. Thronios, Thronites, Thronieus. The chief town of the
Locri Epicnemidii, situated 20 stadia from the coast and 30 stadia from Scarpheia,
upon the river Boagrius, which is described by Strabo as sometimes dry, and sometimes
flowing with a stream two plethra in breadth. (Strab. ix. p. 436.) It is mentioned
by Homer, who speaks of it as near the river Boagrius. (Il. ii. 533.) It was at
one time partly destroyed by an earthquake. (Strab. i. p. 60.) At the beginning
of the Peloponnesian War (B.C. 431) Thronium was taken by the Athenians. (Thuc.
ii. 26; Diod. xii. 44.) In the Sacred War it was taken by Onomarchus, the Phocian
general, who sold its inhabitants into slavery, and hence it is called by Scylax
a Phocian city. The site of Thronium was ascertained by Meletius who found above
the village Romani, at a place named Paleokastro, where some remains of the city
still exist, a dedicatory inscription of the council and demus of the Thronienses.
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
NARYX (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
(Narux), Narycus (Narukos), or Narycium (Narukion). A town of
the Locri Opuntii, on the Euboean Sea, described as the birthplace of Aias, son
of Oileus, who is hence called Narycius heros. Since Locri Epizephyrii, in the
south of Italy, claimed to be a colony from Naryx, in Greece, we find the town
of Locri called Narycia by the poets, and the pitch of Bruttium was also named
Narycia.
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THRONION (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Now Pikraki; the chief town of the Locri Epicnemidii, on the river Boagrius, at a short distance from the sea, with a harbour upon the coast.
NARYX (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
A city in the E part of the region known chiefly as the site of the
cult of Ajax Stammheros. It was destroyed by the Phokians in 352 B.C. during their
war against Boiotia, but was rebuilt perhaps as early as 335 B.C. and survived
at least until the time of Hadrian. An inscription found in excavating a late
temple at Haghios Joannis, below the mediaeval castle of Rengini, has fixed the
location, thought by Bursian to be the predecessor of Pharygai at modern Mendenitsa.
The Classical city, which had an outlet to the sea at Thronion, would have commanded
the route from N to central Greece. There are a few visible remains of the Roman
and Christian periods, with traces of Hellenic walls on the E slope of the acropolis.
M. H. Mc Allister, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
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