Thryon
Thyron (Ancient Greek: Θρύον), sometimes Latinized as Thryum, or Thryoessa (Θρυόεσσα) was a town in Triphylia in ancient Elis, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad, where the town is noted to be in the dominions of Nestor.[1] The town is also noted in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.[2] Later in the Iliad, the poet describes Thyron was at the ford of the river Alpheius.[3] In yet another passage, Homer calls the town Thryoessa, places it upon a lofty hill, and relates how it withstood a siege by the Epeii during their war against the Eleans.[4] Strabo identified Thyron with the later Epitalium;[5] but the identity is uncertain.[6][7]
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