Pindus (city) explained

38.6815°N 22.3773°WPindos or Pindus (Greek: Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Πίνδος), also called Acyphas or Akyphas (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀκύφας), was an ancient city and polis (city-state)[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] [4]

The ancient city was situated at a site called Ano Kastelli or Pyrgos, approximately southwest of Kastellia, and approximately northwest of Gravia.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen . An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. 2004. Oxford University Press. New York. 0-19-814099-1. Doris. 674–675.
  2. Steph. B. s. v. Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀκύφας.
  3. Scymn. Ch. 591; Schol, ad Pind. Pyth. i. 121.
  4. [William Martin Leake]