Cyparissus (Phocis)

Cyparissus or Kyparissos (Ancient Greek: Κυπάρισσος) was a town of ancient Phocis, in the vicinity of Delphi. It is mentioned in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad along with Pytho (Delphi).[1] It is described by Dicaearchus as situated in the interior of Phocis. It is placed by Strabo below Lycoreia, which was situated on one of the heights of Parnassus.[2] Pausanias erroneously reports that Cyparissus was the ancient name of the place afterwards called Anticyra.[3] Cyparissus is also mentioned by Statius[4] and Stephanus of Byzantium.[5]

  1. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.519.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p. 423. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Pausanias (1918). "36.5". 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.
  4. ^ Statius, Thebaid, vii. 344
  5. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.