Upper Larymna

Ober-Larymna ( Greek Άνω Λάρυμνα ( f. Sg. )) Was an ancient Greek city. It was about four kilometers south of today's Larymna . The place Anchoë ( Greek  ἀναχοή = spout ) was located near them . The river Kephissos , which seeped about 3.5 km north in the Kopaïs lake in the great Katavothre , reappeared here and is said to have formed a lake there. The Acropolis of Upper Larymna was to the southeast, to the right of Kephissus, on a conical hill. The city extended to a deeper level, which today bears the name Bazaraki ( Greek παζαράκι = small market ). The ancient marketplace is said to have been located here.

Strabo referred to the upper larymna as Locrian and the lower larymna at the mouth of the Kephissus as Boeotian . The Romans subordinated the upper to the lower larymna. On the acropolis one found polygonal masonry and walls made of regular cuboids, there are also remains of a medieval tower.

literature

• Siegfried Lauffer : Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places. , Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-4144-3 , p. 370
• William Abbott Oldfather : Inscriptions from Locris. in American Journal of Archeology 19, 1915, p. 320 ( online ).

Web links

• Larymna in Pauly's Real-Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity at reader.digitale-sammlungen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Strabo: Geographika , 9.2.13 and 9.2.18
2. ^ Karl Baedeker : Greece: Handbook for Travelers , 1883, p. 173 ( online )