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ANTRON (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Antron (Hom. Strab.), Antrones (Dem.): Eth. Antronios. A town of Thessaly in the
district Phthiotis, at the entrance of the Maliac gulf, and opposite Oreus in
Euboea. It is mentioned in the Iliad (ii. 697) as one of the cities of Protesilaus,
and also in the Homeric hymn to Demeter (489) as under the protection of that
goddess. It was purchased by Philip of Macedon, and was taken by the Romans in
their war with Perseus. (Dem. Phil. iv. p. 133, Reiske; Liv. xlii. 42, 67.) It
probably owed its long existence to the composition of its rocks, which furnished
some of the best millstones in Greece; hence the epithet of petreeis given to
it in the hymn to Demeter. Off Antron was a sunken rock (herma nphalon) called
the Onos Antronos, or mill-stone of Antron. (Strab. p. 435; Steph. B. s. v.; Hesych.
s. v. Mnle; Eustath. in Il. l. c.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 349.)
This extract is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town of Phthiotis in Thessaly, at the entrance to the Sinus Maliacus.
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