Bulis (Phocis)

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Coordinates: 38°17′N 22°49′E / 38.28°N 22.81°E / 38.28; 22.81 Bulis or Boulis (Ancient Greek: Βοῦλις) or Bulea or Bouleia (Βούλεια)[1] was a town of ancient Phocis, on the frontiers of Boeotia, situated upon a hill, and distant 7 stadia from the Crissaean Gulf, 80 stadia from Thisbe, and 100 from Anticyra. It was founded by the Dorians under , and for this reason appears to have belonged to neither the nor the Boeotian Confederacy. Pausanias, at least, did not regard it as a Phocian town, since he describes it as bordering upon Phocis. But Stephanus of Byzantium,[2] Pliny the Elder,[3] and Ptolemy[1] all assign it to Phocis. Near Phocis there flowed into the sea a torrent called , and there was also a fountain named . In the time of Pausanias more than half the population was employed in fishing for the murex, which yielded the purple dye. Pausanias noted various religious buildings at Bulis: sanctuaries of Artemis and Dionysus, with wooden images, although he also mentioned that a divinity named Megisto was worshiped, which could be an epithet of Zeus.[4] The harbour of Bulis, which Pausanias describes as distant 7 stadia from the city, is called (Μυχός) by Strabo.[5]

The site of Bulis is near the modern village of .[6][7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Ptolemy. The Geography. 3.15.18.
  2. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  3. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.3.4.
  4. ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 10.37.2. , et seq.
  5. ^ Strabo. Geographica. ix. pp. 409, 423. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  6. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  7. ^ 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). "Bulis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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