Oeantheia

Oeantheia or Oiantheia (Ancient Greek: Οἰάνθεια)[1][2][3] or Oeanthe (Οἰάνθη)[4][5] or Euanthis (Εὐανθίς)[6] or Euanthia (Εὐανθία)[7] was an important town of the Ozolian Locrians, situated at the western entrance of the Crissaean Gulf (Corinthian gulf). Polybius says that it is opposite to Aegeira in Achaea.[2] Thucydides relates that during the Peloponnesian War, the Oeanthians are among several towns of the Locri Ozolae that were forced to provide hostages to the Lacedaemonian army in 426 BCE.[8] The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax calls the town Euanthis; and since Strabo says that Locri Epizephyrii in Italy was founded by the Ozolian Locrians,[9] under a leader named Euanthes, it has been conjectured that Oeantheia or Euantheia was the place where the emigrants embarked.[6] Oeantheia appears to have been the only maritime city in Locris remaining in the time of Pausanias (2nd century), with the exception of Naupactus. The only objects at Oeantheia mentioned by Pausanias were a temple of Aphrodite, and one of Artemis, situated in a grove above the town.[3] The town is mentioned in the Tabula Peutingeriana as situated 20 miles (32 km) from Naupactus and 15 (24) from Anticyra.

Chaleion and Oeantheia Treaty

The site of Oeantheia is located near modern Tolofon,[10][11] although others still contend the site is near Glyfada.

Pausanias

These, then, live above Amphissa. On the coast is Oeantheia, neighbor to which is Naupactus. The others, but not Amphissa, are under the government of the Achaeans of Patrae, the emperor Augustus having granted them this privilege. In Oeantheia is a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and a little beyond the city there is a grove of cypress-trees mixed with pines; in the grove is a temple of Artemis with an image. The paintings on the walls I found had lost their color with time, and nothing of them was still left worth seeing.

References

Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
Polybius. The Histories. 4.57.
Pausanias. Description of Greece. 10.38.9.
Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.3.4.
Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 14.
Ptolemy. The Geography. 3.15.3.
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 3.101.
Strabo. Geographica. vi. p. 259. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
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.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Oeantheia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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