Ancient Greek: Μεδεών | |
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Acropolis_of_Medeon_4.jpg) Portion of Medeon's city wall still standing. | |
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Greece_relief_location_map.jpg)  Medeon Shown within Greece | |
| Location | Agioi Theodoroi hill |
|---|---|
| Region | East coast of the Gulf of Antikyra |
| Coordinates | 38°22′03″N 22°40′58″E / 38.36754°N 22.6827°E |
| Type | Ruins of a walled city |
| Part of | Ancient Phocis, modern Steiri in Distomo, Voiotia |
| Height | 51 metres (167 ft) |
| History | |
| Abandoned | 346 BCE |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1907, 1962-63 |
| Archaeologists | Georgios Sotiriadis, J. Constantinou |
| Ownership | Republic of Greece |
| Management | Ministry of Culture and Sports, 10th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities |
| Public access | Always open |
Medeon (Ancient Greek: Μεδεών)[1] was a town of ancient Phocis, destroyed by Philip II of Macedon along with the other Phocian towns at the termination of the Third Sacred War (in 346 BCE), and never again restored.[2] Strabo places it on the Crissaean Gulf (in the sense of the Gulf of Corinth), at the distance of 160 stadia from Boeotia;[3] and Pausanias says that it was near Antikyra.[4]
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. pp. 410, 423. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "36.6". 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.