Pythion

This article is about the ancient city in Thessaly, Greece. For the modern village in Greece, see Pythio.
Map showing ancient Thessaly. Pythion is shown to the centre top near Mount Olympus.

Pythion (Greek: Πύθιον) or Pythium, also Pythoion (Πύθοιον) was a city and polis (city-state)[1] of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly, situated at the foot of Mount Olympus, and forming a Tripolis with the two neighbouring towns of Azorus and Doliche. Pythion derived its name from a temple of Apollo Pythius situated on one of the summits of Olympus, as we learn from an epigram of Xeinagoras, a Greek mathematician, who measured the height of Olympus from these parts.[2] Games were also celebrated here in honour of Apollo.[3]

  1. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 726–727. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. ^ ap. Plut. Aemil. Paul. 15.
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Πύθιον.