Tithronium or Tithronion (), or Tethronium or Tethronion (Τεθρώνιον), was a frontier town of

ancient Phocis Phocis was an ancient region in the central part of ancient Greece, which included Delphi. A modern administrative unit, also called Phocis, is named after the ancient region, although the modern region is substantially larger than the ancient o ...

, on the side of Doris.

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding i ...

, who calls it Tritonon, describes it as a town of Doris, but all other ancient writers place it in Phocis. During the

Greco-Persian Wars The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Polis, Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world ...

, it was destroyed by the army of

Xerxes I Xerxes I ( – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was a List of monarchs of Persia, Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC. He was ...

together with the other Phocian towns in 480 BCE. It is placed by Pausanias in the plain at the distance of 15 stadia from

Amphicleia Amphicleia or Amphikleia () or Amphicaea or Amphikaia (Ἀμφίκαια) was a Greek town in the north of ancient Phocis, distant 60 stadia from Lilaea, and 15 stadia from Tithronium. It was destroyed by the Persian army of Xerxes in his invas ...

. Its site has been located at a place called Palaiokastro (old castle).

References

Populated places in ancient Phocis Former populated places in Greece {{ancientPhocis-geo-stub