Tithronium

38°40′31″N 22°34′52″E / 38.67517°N 22.58105°E / 38.67517; 22.58105 Tithronium or Tithronion (Ancient Greek: Τιθρώνιον),^[1] 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,^[2] 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.^[3] It is placed by Pausanias in the plain at the distance of 15 stadia from Amphicleia.^[4]

Its site has been located at a place called Palaiokastro (old castle).^[5]^[6]

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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