Eritium

Eritium was a town of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly. It appears to have been near Cyretiae, since it was taken along with the latter town by Marcus Baebius Tamphilus in 191 BCE.^[1]

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Eritium is shown to upper centre.

William Martin Leake placed it at Paleokastro, a village above Sykies, on the left bank of the Vúrgaris, a river of Tripolitis. In the church of St. George in Domeniko, which occupies the site of the ancient Cyretiae, Leake noticed an inscribed stone, on which the name of Apollodorus is followed by a word beginning ΕΡΗ, which he conjectures with much probability may be the place called Eritium by Livy.^[2] Modern scholars treat Eritium as unlocated.^[3]

References

1. Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 36.13.
2. Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 310, 313.
3. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

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