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AMVROSSOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Ambrysus or Amphrysus (Ambrusos, Strab.; Ambrossos, Paus.; Amphrusos,
Steph. B. s.v.: Eth. Ambrusios, Ambruseus, and in Inscr. Ambrosseus Dhistomo).
a town of Phocis, was situated 60 stadia from Stiris, NE. of Anticyra, at the
southern foot of Mt. Cirphis (not at the foot of Parnassus, as Pausanias states),
and in a fertile valley, producing abundance of wine and the coccus, or kermes
berry, used to dye scarlet. It was destroyed by order of the Amphictyons, but
was rebuilt and fortified by the Thebans with a double wall, in their war against
Philip. Its fortifications were considered by Pausanias the strongest in Greece,
next to those of Messene. (Paus. x. 3. § 2, x. 36. § 1, seq., iv. 31. § 5; Strab.
p. 423.) It was taken by the Romans in the Macedonian war, B.C. 198. (Liv. xxxii.
18.) The site of Ambrysus is fixed at the modern village of Dhistomo, by an inscription
which Chandler found at the latter place. The remains of the ancient city are
few and inconsiderable. (Dodwell, Tour through Greece, vol. i. p. 196, seq.; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 535, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
STIRIS (Ancient city) DISTOMO
Eth. Stirites. A town of Phocis situated 120 stadia from Chaeroneia,
the road between the two places running across the mountains. The inhabitants
of Stiris claimed descent from an Athenian colony of the Attic demus of Steiria,
led by Peteus, when he was driven out of Attica by Aegeus. Pausanias describes
the city as situated upon a rocky summit, with only a few wells, which did not
supply water fit for drinking, which the inhabitants obtained from a fountain,
four stadia below the city, to which fountain there was a descent excavated among
the rocks. The city contained in the time of Pausanias a temple of Artemis Stiritis,
made of crude brick, containing two statues, one of Pentelic marble, the other
of ancient workmanship, covered with bandages. (Paus. x. 35. § § 8 - 10.) Stiris
was one of the Phocian cities destroyed by Philip at the close of the Sacred War
(Paus. x. 3. § 2); but it was afterwards rebuilt and was inhabited at the time
of the visit of Pausanias. The ruins of Stiris, now called Palea khora, are situated
upon a tabular height defended by precipitous rocks, about a quarter of an hour's
ride from the monastery of St. Luke. The summit is surrounded with a wall of loose
construction, and the surface of the rock within the inclosure is excavated in
many places for habitations. The fountain of water described by Pausanias is probably
the copious source within the walls of the monastery issuing from the side of
the hill. This fountain is mentioned in an inscription fixed in the outer wall
of the church. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 528, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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