# Boium

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**Boium** or **Boion** (Ancient Greek: Βοιόν) was a town and [polis](/source/Polis) (city-state)[1] of [Doris](/source/Doris_(Greece)), and one of the original towns of the [Doric Tetrapolis](/source/Doric_Tetrapolis) (along with [Pindus](/source/Pindus_(city)), [Cytinium](/source/Cytinium), and [Erineus](/source/Erineus_(city))).[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] According to [Andron of Halicarnassus](/source/Andron_of_Halicarnassus), the founders of these cities were coming from an area that was also called [Doris](/source/Doris_(Thessaly)), in [Thessaly](/source/Thessaly), and that was also called [Histiaeotis](/source/Histiaeotis).[9] [Thucydides](/source/Thucydides) writes that during [First Peloponnesian War](/source/First_Peloponnesian_War), about the year 458 or 457 BCE, the [Phocians](/source/Phocians) attacked the cities of Boium, Erineus and Cytinium in Doris. The [Lacedemonians](/source/Lacedaemonian) came to their defense, with troops commanded by [Nicomedes of Sparta](/source/Nicomedes_of_Sparta) and forced the Phocians to retreat.[2]

Boium's site is near the modern [Gravia](/source/Gravia).[10][11]

## References

1. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). ["Doris"](https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans). *An inventory of archaic and classical poleis*. New York: [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). p. [675](https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n691). ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

1. *Scymn. Ch.* 591.

1. [Tzetz.](/source/John_Tzetzes) *ad Lycophr.* 741

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