Dium (Euboea)

Dium or Dion (Ancient Greek: Δῖον or Δίων or Δίον) was a town in the northwest of ancient Euboea near the promontory Cenaeum, from which Canae in Aeolis is said to have been a colony.[1][2][3] Dium is mentioned by Homer, as under the leadership of Elephenor, in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.[4]

Dium is tentatively identified with the site of Likhas Kastri.[5][6]

References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. x. p.446. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.12.
  3. Ptolemy. The Geography. 3.15.25.
  4. Homer. Iliad. 2.538.
  5. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, 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). "Dium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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