Buchetium

Buchetium or Bouchetion (Ancient Greek: Βουχέτιον), or Buchaetium or Bouchaition (Βουχαίτιον),[1] or Buchetum or Boucheton (Βουχετόν),[2] or Bucheta or Boucheta (Βούχετα),[3] was a city of the Cassopaei in ancient Thesprotia, a little above the sea.[1]

According to the legend it got its name because Themis went there, mounted on an ox, during the flood of Deukalion.[4]

Its site was occupied by the medieval settlement of Rogoi, near modern Nea Kerasounta.[5][6]

References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. vii. p.324. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Polybius. The Histories. 22.9.
  3. Dem. de Halonn. § 32; Harpocrat. s. v.
  4. Suda, §th.114
  5. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54, and directory notes accompanying.
  6. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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


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