Rhithymna

Rhithymna or Rithymna (Ancient Greek: Ῥίθυμνα) or Rhithymnia (Ῥιθυμνία), was a town of ancient Crete, Greece, which is mentioned by Ptolemy¹ and Pliny the Elder² as the first town on the north coast to the east of Amphimalla, and is spoken of as a Cretan city by Stephanus of Byzantium, in whose text its name is written Rhithymnia; Stephanus gives the city's ethnonyms as Ῥιθυμνιάτης and Ῥιθύμνιος.³ It is also alluded to by Lycophron (76). Modern Rethymno retains the name of the ancient city, upon whose site it stands. Rhithymna minted coins in antiquity; maritime emblems are found on them.⁴ It is believed that Arsinoe is the same town as Rhithymna.⁵⁶

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Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.17.7.
Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 4.20.
Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
Eckhel, Numi Vet. Anecdoti, p. 155; Rasche, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 1024; Robert Pashley, Crete, vol. i. p. 101.
Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
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). "Rhithymna". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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[1] Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.17.7.

[2] Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 4.20.

[3] Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.

[4] Eckhel, Numi Vet. Anecdoti, p. 155; Rasche, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 1024; Robert Pashley, Crete, vol. i. p. 101.

[5] Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

[6] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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