Pindus (city)
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Pindos or Pindus (Greek: Πίνδος), also called Acyphas or Akyphas (Ἀκύφας), was an ancient city and polis (city-state) of Greece, one of the towns of the tetrapolis of Doris, situated upon a river of the same name, which flows into the Cephissus near Lilaea. Strabo, Theopompus, and Stephanus of Byzantium call the city Akyphas. In one passage Strabo says that Pindus lay above Erineus, and in another he places it in the district of Oetaea; it is, therefore, probable that the town stood in the upper part of the valley, near the sources of the river in the mountain.
The ancient city was situated at a site called Ano Kastelli or Pyrgos, approximately 2.1 miles (3.4 km) southwest of Kastellia, and approximately 2.8 miles (4.5 km) northwest of Gravia.
References
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Doris". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 674–675. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Steph. B. s. v. Ἀκύφας.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. pp. 427, 434. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Scymn. Ch. 591; Schol, ad Pind. Pyth. i. 121.
- ^ Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 2.3.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.7.13.
- ^ William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 92.)
- ^ 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). "Pindus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.