Thurion

Thurion ( Greek Θούριον , Latin Thurium Mons ) is the ancient name of a mountain range on the eastern edge of the plain of Chaironeia in Boiotien . Today's village of Thourio is located on the northern edge of the road from Cheronia to Livadia . The Acropolis of Chaironeia was located on Petrarchos , a branch of the northwestern part of the Thurion.

The Thurion also includes the Orthopagos , a steeply towering hill on the edge of the plain near Chaironea, where 86 BC. The second battle took place near Chaeronea , in which the Roman general Sulla defeated the troops of Mithridates under Archelaus . According to Plutarch's report , Sulla erected a monument on Orthopagos with the names of two Greeks from Chaironeia, Homoloichos and Anaxidamos, who had given Sulla a decisive tactical advantage by showing him a mountain path to the Thurion, unknown to the enemy. This monument, a block of marble about 1 meter wide and 30 centimeters high, was found in February 1990 by John Camp and a group of UCLA students , which made it possible to pinpoint the location of the battle.

At the foot of the Orthopagus there was also a temple of Apollon Thurios .

literature

Martin Fell: Thurion. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12,1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996-2015, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 512.
Karl Fiehn : Thurion. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI A, 1, Stuttgart 1936, column 653.
W. Kendrick Pritchett : Observations on Chaironeia. In: American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 62, No. 3, July 1958, pp. 307-311.

Individual evidence

↑ Plutarch, Sulla 17.4-19.5; Pausanias , Description of Greece 9,40,7; 9.41.6.
↑ John Camp, Michael Ierardi, Jeremy McInerney, Kathryn Morgan, Gretchen Umholtz: A Trophy from the Battle of Chaironeia of 86 BC In: American Journal of Archeology. Vol. 96, No. 3, July 1992, pp. 443-455, doi : 10.2307 / 506067
↑ John M. Fossey: Topography and Population of Ancient Boiotia. Ares, Chicago 1988, Vol. 1, pp. 383 f., Vol. 2. pp. 43 f.

38.5003 22.8245Coordinates: 38 ° 30 ' N , 22 ° 49' E

[1] Plutarch, Sulla 17.4-19.5; Pausanias , Description of Greece 9,40,7; 9.41.6.

[2] John Camp, Michael Ierardi, Jeremy McInerney, Kathryn Morgan, Gretchen Umholtz: A Trophy from the Battle of Chaironeia of 86 BC In: American Journal of Archeology. Vol. 96, No. 3, July 1992, pp. 443-455, doi : 10.2307 / 506067

[3] John M. Fossey: Topography and Population of Ancient Boiotia. Ares, Chicago 1988, Vol. 1, pp. 383 f., Vol. 2. pp. 43 f.