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ITHOMI (Ancient city) KARDITSA
Eth. ithometes, Ithomaios. A town of Histiaeotis in Thessaly, described
by Homer as the rocky Ithome, is placed by Strabo within a quadrangle formed by
the four cities, Tricca, Metropolis, Pelinnaeum, and Gomphi. It probably occupied
the site of the castle which stands on the summit above the village of Fandri.
Leake observed, near the north-western face of the castle, some remains of a very
ancient Hellenic wall, consisting of a few large masses of stone, roughly hewn
on the outside, but accurately joined to one another without cement.
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
A town of Thessaly, in the vicinity of Metropolis.
A town in the Hestiaiotis region, within a rectangle formed by the fortified cities of Gomphoi, Trikka, Pelinnaion, and Metropolis; it merged with the last of these in the 4th c. B.C. The site was located by Leake on a ridge between Metropolis and Gomphoi, now marked by a Byzantine-Turkish castle. The only remains of the ancient city are the ashlar blocks in the NW part of the fortification wall.
M. H. Mc Allister, 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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