Thyron (Ancient Greek: Θρύον), sometimes Latinized as Thryum, or Thryoessa (Θρυόεσσα) was a town in Triphylia in ancient Elis, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad, where the town is noted to be in the dominions of Nestor.[1] The town is also noted in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.[2] Later in the Iliad, the poet describes Thyron was at the ford of the river Alpheius. In the same passage, Homer calls the town Thryoessa, places it upon a lofty hill, and relates how it withstood a siege by the Epeii during their war against the Eleans.[3] Strabo identified Thyron with the later Epitalium;[4] but the identity is uncertain.[5][6]
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Homer. Iliad. 2.592.
Homer Hymn to Apollo,. 423
Homer. Iliad. 11.711-761.
Strabo. Geographica. 8.3.24. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Juan José Torres Esbarranch (2001). Estrabón, Geografía libros VIII-X (in Spanish). Madrid: Gredos. p. 74, n. 207. ISBN 84-249-2298-0.
Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Epitalium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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