# Cytinium

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**Cytinium** or **Kytinion** (Greek: Κυτίνιον or Κυτείνιον[1]) was an ancient city and [polis](/source/Polis) (city-state)[2] of [Greece](/source/Greece), one of the towns of the [tetrapolis](/source/Tetrapolis_(Doris)) of [Doris](/source/Doris_(Greece)).[3] Its site is within the bounds of the modern village of [Palaiochori](/source/Palaiochori_Dorieon).

Cytinium was more frequently mentioned in history than the other towns of the Tetrapolis owing to its situation, which rendered it a place of great military importance.[4][5][1][6] The position of the town, commanding the northern entrance of the pass leading from the valley of Doris to the plain of Amphissa, illustrates the intended expedition of [Demosthenes](/source/Demosthenes_(general)) from [Naupactus](/source/Naupactus) in 426 BCE. This commander proposed, if he had been successful over the [Aetolians](/source/Aetolians), to have marched through the [Locri Ozolae](/source/Locri_Ozolae), leaving [Parnassus](/source/Parnassus) on the right, to Cytinium in Doris, and from thence to have descended into [Phocis](/source/Ancient_Phocis), whose inhabitants were to have joined him in invading [Boeotia](/source/Ancient_Boeotia).[7] When [Eurylochus](/source/Eurylochus_(Spartan_general)), the [Spartan](/source/Ancient_Sparta) general, shortly after the failure of the expedition of Demosthenes, was about to march from [Delphi](/source/Delphi) against Naupactus, he deposited at Cytinium the hostages he had received from the Locrians.[8] [Philip II of Macedon](/source/Philip_II_of_Macedon) seized it in the course of his invasion of Greece in 339 BCE.[9]

The site of Cytinium (Kytinion) lies at a site called Agios Georgios within the bounds of modern day [Palaiochori](/source/Palaiochori_Dorieon).[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. "Cytinium". Vol. 1. p. 739.

1. Raphael Sealey, *A History of the Greek City States, Ca. 700-338 B.C.* (University of California Press, 1976: ISBN 0520031776), p. 489.

## See also

[STOA Pleiades link](https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540899?searchterm=Kytinion)

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