# Drymaea

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**Drymaea** or **Drymaia** (Ancient Greek: Δρυμαία)[1] or **Drymus** or **Drymos** (Δρύμος)[2] or **Drymea** or **Drymia** (Δρυμία)[3] or **Drymiae**[4] was a frontier town of [ancient Phocis](/source/Ancient_Phocis), on the side of [Doris](/source/Doris_(Greece)), whence it is included in the limits of Doris by Livy.[4] [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)) describes it as 80 [stadia](/source/Stadion_(unit)) from [Amphicleia](/source/Amphicleia): but this number appears to be an error of the copyists, since in the same passage he says that Amphicleia was only 15 stadia from [Tithronium](/source/Tithronium), and Tithronium 15 stadia from Drymaea, which would make Drymaea only 30 stadia from Amphicleia. He also speaks of an ancient temple of [Demeter](/source/Demeter) at Drymaea, containing an upright statue of the goddess in stone, in whose honour the annual festival of the Thesmophoria was celebrated. Its more ancient name is said to have been Nauboleis (Ναυβολεῖς), which was derived from [Naubolus](/source/Naubolus_(mythology)), an ancient Phocian hero, father of [Iphitus](/source/Iphitus).[5][6][2][4][7]

It was one of the Phocian towns destroyed in the [Greco-Persian Wars](/source/Greco-Persian_Wars) by the army of [Xerxes I](/source/Xerxes_I) in 480 BCE.[2] In 348/7 BCE, it was destroyed in the [Third Sacred War](/source/Third_Sacred_War) and the inhabitants settled in nearby villages.[1] During the [First Macedonian War](/source/First_Macedonian_War), [Philip V of Macedon](/source/Philip_V_of_Macedon) conquered the town in 208 BCE.[4]

The site of Drymaea is near the modern village of [Glunitsa](/source/Glunitsa) (renamed Drymaia in 1915).[8][9] [William Martin Leake](/source/William_Martin_Leake) visited the site in the 19th century and noted that is indicated by some ruins, situated midway between Kamares and Glunista, and occupying a rocky point of the mountain on the edge of the plain. "Some of the towers remain nearly entire. The masonry is generally of the third order, but contains some pieces of the polygonal kind; the space enclosed is a triangle, of which none of the sides is more than 250 yards (230 m). At the summit is a circular [acropolis](/source/Acropolis) of about 2 acres (0.81 ha), preserving the remains of an opening into the town".[10]

## References

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1. [William Martin Leake](/source/William_Martin_Leake), *Northern Greece*, vol. ii. pp. 73, 87.

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