Erochus

Erochus

Erochus

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38°38′02″N 22°31′37″E Erochus or Erochos (Ancient Greek: Έρωχος) was a town of ancient Phocis that was destroyed in the Greco-Persian Wars by the army of Xerxes I in 480 BCE.[1]

The city was again destroyed in the Third Sacred War, and was not rebuilt; it was located between Charadra and Tithronium, in the western part of the mount Cithaeron.[2] Its site is located near Kato Souvala.[3][4]

References

  1. [1]
    Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 8.33.
  2. [2]
    María Cruz Herrero Ingelmo (2008). Pausanias, Descripción de Grecia (in Spanish). Vol. 3, libros VII-X. Madrid: Gredos. p. 354 & accompanying note. ISBN 978-84-249-1650-3.
  3. [3]
    Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  4. [4]
    Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Erochus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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