38°40′31″N 22°34′52″E / 38.67517°N 22.58105°E / 38.67517; 22.58105 Tithronium or Tithronion (Ancient Greek: Τιθρώνιον), or Tethronium or Tethronion (Τεθρώνιον), was a frontier town of ancient Phocis, on the side of Doris. Livy, who calls it Tritonon, describes it as a town of Doris, but all other ancient writers place it in Phocis. During the Greco-Persian Wars, it was destroyed by the army of Xerxes I together with the other Phocian towns in 480 BCE. It is placed by Pausanias in the plain at the distance of 15 stadia from Amphicleia.
Its site has been located at a place called Palaiokastro (old castle).
References
- Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 28.7.
- Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 8.33.
- Pausanias (1918). "3.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 10. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 10.33.11
- Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Tithronium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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