Cyphus or Kyphos (Ancient Greek: Κύφος) was a town of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly, which, according to Homer's Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, supplied 22 ships for the Trojan War.[1] It is placed by Strabo at the foot of Mount Olympus.[2] According to Stephanus of Byzantium,[3] there were two cities of the name of Cyphus, one mentioned by Homer, and the other by Lycophron;[4] but in this he appears to have been mistaken.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.748.
  2. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.441. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  4. ↑ Lycophr. 897.
  5. ↑ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cyphus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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