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FESTOS (Ancient city) FOKIDA
A town of the Locri Ozolae in the interior, with a port called the port of Apollo
Phaestius. (Plin. iv. 3. s. 4.) Leake places Phaestus at Vithari, where are the
ruins of a fortress of no great extent, and the port of Apollo near C. Andhromakhi.
TOLOFON (Ancient city) PARNASSOS
Eth. Tolophonios. A town of the Locri Ozolae, possessing a large harbour according
to Dicaearchus (66; comp. Thuc. iii. 101; Steph. B. s. v.). According to Leake
it occupied the valley of Kiseli. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 620.)
TOLOFON (Ancient city) PARNASSOS
A Lokrian city on the coast (harbor mentioned by Dion. Hall.) on the
route of Eurylochos' march. It is in Vidavi (not, as officially, in Vitrinitsa).
The fortification, triangular in plan, is well preserved.
L. Lerat, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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