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DION (Ancient city) PIERIA
A river of Macedonia, near Dium, the same, according to Pausanias (ix. 30), with the Baphyrus.
There is also a river called Helicon. After a course of seventy-five stades the stream hereupon disappears under the earth. After a gap of about twenty-two stades the water rises again, and under the name of Baphyra instead of Helicon flows into the sea as a navigable river. The people of Dium say that at first this river flowed on land throughout its course. But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the river sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
Baphyras or Baphyrus (Baphuras), a small river of Macedonia, flowing
by Dium through marshes into the sea. It was celebrated for the excellence of
its teuthides, or cuttle-fish. (Liv. xliv. 6; Athen. vii. p. 326, d.; Lycophr.
274.) Pausanias (ix. 30. § 8) relates that this was the same river as the Helicon,
which, after flowing 75 stadia above ground, has then a subterraneous course of
22 stadia, and on its reappearance is navigable under the name of Baphyras. (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 411.)
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) PIERIA
Apila (Platamona), a river in Pieria in Macedonia, rising in Mt. Olympus, and flowing into the sea near Heracleia. (Plin. iv. 10. s. 17; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 405, 406.)
PETRA (Ancient city) PIERIA
There are three roads from lower Macedonia into Thessaly. (1) East of Mount Olympus along the coast to the mouth of the Peneius, and up that river to Gonnus through the pass of Tempe; (2) through the depression between western Olympus and the Pierian hills, called the pass of Petra, leading to the sources of the river Europus or Titaresius, and down that river through Perrhaebia; (3) making a much longer circuit round the mountains up the valley of the Haliacmon, and then turning south-east through a deep cleft in the Cambunian Mountains (the pass of Volustana or Servia) to the upper valley of the Titaresius.
This extract is from: A Commentary on Herodotus (ed. W. W. How, J. Wells). Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
PIERIA (Ancient area) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Agassa or Agasae, a town in Pieria in Macedonia, near the river Mitys.
Livy, in relating the campaign of B.C. 169 against Perseus, says that the Roman
consul made three days' march beyond Dium, the first of which terminated at the
river Mitys, the second at Agassa, and the third at the river Ascordus. The last
appears to be the same as the Acerdos, which occurs in the Tabular Itinerary,
though not marked as a river. Leake supposes that the Mitys was the river of Katerina,
and that Acerdos was a tributary of the Haliacmon. (Liv. xliv. 7, xlv. 27; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 423, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A river of Pieria in Macedonia, which the Roman army, in the third campaign against
Perseus, under Q. Marcius, reached on the first day after their occupation of
Dium. (Liv. xliv. 7.) The Mitys was perhaps the river of Katerina. (Leake, North.
Greece, vol. iii. p. 424.)
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