{{Short description|Town of the Epicnemidian Locrians}} {{about||the town of ancient Boeotia|Scarphe (Boeotia)|greek myth figure|Scarphe (mythology)}}
'''Scarphe''' ({{langx|grc|Σκάρφη}})<ref name=Homer>{{Cite Iliad|2.532}}</ref> or '''Scarpheia''' (Σκάρφεια)<ref name=Strabo>{{Cite Strabo|9.4.4-5}}</ref><ref name=Stephanus>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> was a town of the Epicnemidian Locrians, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the ''Iliad''.<ref name=Homer/> According to Strabo it was 10 stadia from the sea, 30 stadia from Thronium, and a little less from some other place of which the name is lost, probably Nicaea.<ref name=Strabo/> Moreover, Scarphe was reported to be occupying the territory of Augeiae, which had disappeared by his time.<ref name=Strabo/> It appears from Pausanias that it lay on the direct road from Elateia to Thermopylae by Thronium,<ref>{{Cite Pausanias|8|15|3}}</ref> and likewise from Livy, who states that Lucius Quinctius Flamininus marched from Elateia by Thronium and Scarpheia to Heraclea.<ref>{{Cite Livy|33.3}}</ref> It was also the site of the Battle of Scarpheia in 146 BCE. Scarpheia is said by Strabo to have been destroyed by an inundation of the sea (tsunami) caused by an earthquake<ref>{{Cite Strabo|1.3.20}}</ref> in 426 BCE,<ref>according to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20180917181642/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5878&t=101650&s=18&d=99,91,95,93&nd=display United States National Geophysical Data Center]</ref> but it must have been afterwards rebuilt, as it is mentioned by subsequent writers down to a late period, including Pliny the Elder,<ref>{{Cite Pliny|4.7.12}}</ref> Ptolemy,<ref>{{Cite Ptolemy|3.15.11}}</ref> Hierocles,<ref>{{Cite Hierocles|p. 643}}</ref> Stephanus of Byzantium,<ref name=Stephanus/> and the Geographer of Ravenna.<ref>Geog. Rav. 4.10.</ref> Scarpheia is also mentioned by Lycophron,<ref>Lycophr. 1147</ref> Appian,<ref>App. ''Syr.'' 19</ref> and Pausanias.<ref>{{Cite Pausanias|2|29|3}}, 10.1.2.</ref>
It was, together with Thronium, one of the only cities of Epicnemidian Locris that minted coins.
The site of the ancient town is tentatively identified as near Molos.<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|23301}}</ref>
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Category:Populated places in Epicnemidian Locris Category:Former populated places in Greece Category:Places in the Iliad
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