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Boium

Boium or Boion was a town and polis (city-state) of Doris, and one of the original towns of the Doric Tetrapolis. According to Andron of Halicarnassus, the founders of these cities were coming from an area that was also called Doris, in Thessaly, and that was also called Histiaeotis. Thucydides writes that during First Peloponnesian War, about the year 458 or 457 BCE, the Phocians attacked the cities of Boium, Erineus and Cytinium in Doris. The Lacedemonians came to their defense, with troops commanded by Nicomedes of Sparta and forced the Phocians to retreat.

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38°41′01″N 22°25′38″E / 38.6836°N 22.42731°E / 38.6836; 22.42731 Boium or Boion (Ancient Greek: Βοιόν) was a town and polis (city-state)1 of Doris, and one of the original towns of the Doric Tetrapolis (along with Pindus, Cytinium, and Erineus).2345678 According to Andron of Halicarnassus, the founders of these cities were coming from an area that was also called Doris, in Thessaly, and that was also called Histiaeotis.9 Thucydides writes that during First Peloponnesian War, about the year 458 or 457 BCE, the Phocians attacked the cities of Boium, Erineus and Cytinium in Doris. The Lacedemonians came to their defense, with troops commanded by Nicomedes of Sparta and forced the Phocians to retreat.2

Boium's site is near the modern Gravia.1011

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References

  1. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Doris". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 675. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 1.107.
  3. Scymn. Ch. 591.
  4. Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.15.15.
  5. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  6. Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 741
  7. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.427. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  8. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 4.7.13.
  9. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.4-10, 10.4.6. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  10. Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  11. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Boium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.