Dorium

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dorium or Dorion (Ancient Greek: Δώριον) was a town of ancient Messenia, Dorium appears in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad, where he mentions it as the place where the bard Thamyris was smitten with blindness, because he boasted that he could surpass the Muses in singing.[1] Strabo says that some persons said Dorium was a mountain, and others a plain; but there was no trace of the place in his time, although some identified it with a place called (Ὄλουρις) or (Ὄλουρα), in the district of Messenia named Aulon.[2] Pausanias, however, places the ruins of Dorium on the road from Andania to Cyparissia. After leaving Andania, he first came to Polichne; and after crossing the rivers and , he reached the fountain of and the ruins of Dorium.[3]

Its site is located near the modern .[4][5][6]

References[]

  1. ^ Homer. Iliad. 2.599.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. viii. p.350. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 4.33.7.
  4. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  6. ^ Reger, G., J. McK. Camp II. "Places: 570202 (Dorion)". Pleiades. Retrieved July 6, 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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

Coordinates: 37°15′15″N 21°52′51″E / 37.254095°N 21.880939°E / 37.254095; 21.880939


Stub icon

This article about a location in ancient Messenia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

  • v
  • t
Retrieved from ""