Dyme

This article is about the ancient town. For the Dutch company, see Dyme (company).
O: laureate head of Zeus R: fish under (AX) monogram, (APT) left and ΔΥ up all within wreath
silver hemidrachm of Achaean League struck in Dyme around 86 BC. Coin was struck with worn dies.

ref.: BMC 29, Sear GCV 2974, Clerk 55, BCD Peloponnesos 482

Dyme (Ancient Greek: Δύμη), or Dymae,[1] was a town and polis (city-state)[2] of ancient Achaea, and the most westerly of the 12 Achaean cities, from which circumstance it is said to have derived its name.[3][4][5] The location of Dyme is near the modern Kato Achaia.[6][7]

  1. ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 27.31.
  2. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Achaia". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 481–482. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  3. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 1.145.
  4. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2.41.
  5. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.387. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  6. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  7. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.