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Ancient Greek city in Acarnania

For the ancient city now in Italy, see [Thurii](/source/Thurii).

Epirus in antiquity

**Thyrium** or **Thyrion** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Θύριον),[1] or **Thyreum** or **Thyreon** (Θύρεον),[2] or **Thurium** or **Thourion** (Θούριον),[3] or **Thyrreium** or **Thyrreion** (Θύρρειον),[4] was a city in [ancient Acarnania](/source/Ancient_Acarnania). [Cicero](/source/Cicero) tells us that in sailing from [Alyzia](/source/Ancient_Alyzia) to [Leucas](/source/Leucas_(island)), he touched at Thyrium, where he remained two hours;[5] and from this statement, as well as from the history of the events in which Thyrium is mentioned, we may infer that it was situated on or near the [Ionian Sea](/source/Ionian_Sea), and that it was the first town on the coast south of the channel which separated Leucas from the mainland.

Thyrium is first mentioned in 373 BCE, when its territory was invaded by [Iphicrates](/source/Iphicrates).[6] [Xenophon](/source/Xenophon) describes it as a place of importance; and it appears as one of the chief cities of Acarnania at the time of the [Roman wars in Greece](/source/Greco-Roman_Wars), when its name frequently occurs. When Acarnania allied itself with [Philip V of Macedon](/source/Philip_V_of_Macedon) against Rome in 200 BCE, although it lost Leucas because of this, and the city of Thyrreion was anointed as its new capital. At this period Thyrium was one of the places at which the meetings of the [Acarnanian League](/source/Acarnanian_League) were usually held. It was one of the many towns whose ruin was occasioned by the foundation of [Nicopolis](/source/Nicopolis) to which its inhabitants were removed by order of [Augustus](/source/Augustus).[7][8][4]

Its site is located near the modern [Thyrio](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thyrio,_Greece&action=edit&redlink=1) (formerly Ag. Vasilios), near [Vonitsa](/source/Vonitsa).[9][10]

## See also

- [List of ancient Greek cities](/source/List_of_ancient_Greek_cities)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Polybius](/source/Polybius). *[The Histories](/source/The_Histories_(Polybius))*. Vol. 4.25.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Polybius](/source/Polybius). *[The Histories](/source/The_Histories_(Polybius))*. Vol. 4.6.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Polybius](/source/Polybius). *[The Histories](/source/The_Histories_(Polybius))*. Vol. 28.5.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Anth_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Anth_4-1) Anth. Gr. 9.553

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Cicero](/source/Cicero), *ad Fam.* 16.5.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Xenophon](/source/Xenophon). *[Hellenica](/source/Hellenica)*. Vol. 6.2.37.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Polybius](/source/Polybius). *[The Histories](/source/The_Histories_(Polybius))*. Vol. 4.6, 4.25, 17.10, 22.12, 28.5.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Livy](/source/Livy). *[Ab urbe condita Libri](/source/Ab_urbe_condita_(Livy))* [*History of Rome*]. Vol. 36.11, 36.12, 38.9, 43.17.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Talbert, Richard](/source/Richard_Talbert), ed. (2000). [*Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World*](/source/Barrington_Atlas_of_the_Greek_and_Roman_World). Princeton University Press. p. 54. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-691-03169-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-03169-9), with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [Lund University](/source/Lund_University). [*Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire*](https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/25222.html).

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)), ed. (1854–1857). "Thyrium". *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography)*. London: John Murray.

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