Crommyon

Crommyon or Krommyon (Ancient Greek: Κρομμυών),^[1]^[2]^[3] or Cromyon^[4] or Kromyon (Κρομυών),^[5] or Cremmyon^[6] or Kremmyon (Κρεμμυών),^[7]^[8] was a small town of ancient Corinthia on the Saronic Gulf, but originally the last town of Megaris. It was the chief place between the isthmus, properly so called, and Megara; whence the whole of this coast was called the Crommyonia (ἡ Κρομμυωνία).^[3] Crommyon was distant 120 stadia from Corinth,^[1] and therefore occupied the site of the ruins near the chapel of Ag. Theodori (St. Theodorus).^[9]^[10] Crommyon is said by Pausanias to have derived its name from , the son of Poseidon. It is celebrated in mythology as the haunt of the Crommyonian Sow destroyed by Theseus.^[5]^[3]^[11]^[4] It was taken by the Lacedaemonians in the Corinthian War, but was recovered by Iphicrates.^[2]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 4.45.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Xenophon. Hellenica. 4.4.13, 4.5.19.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Strabo. Geographica. viii. p. 380. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Ovid Metamorphoses 7.435.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Pausanias. Description of Greece. 2.1.3.
^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.7.11.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
^ Plutarch Thes. 9.

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

Coordinates: 37°55′39″N 23°08′29″E / 37.92753°N 23.14146°E / 37.92753; 23.14146

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[Thucydides-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 4.45.

[Xenophon-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Xenophon. Hellenica. 4.4.13, 4.5.19.

[Strabo-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Strabo. Geographica. viii. p. 380. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.

[Ovid-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Ovid Metamorphoses 7.435.

[Pausanias-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b Pausanias. Description of Greece. 2.1.3.

[6] Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.7.11.

[7] Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.

[8] Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax

[9] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.

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

[11] Plutarch Thes. 9.

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