Cnemides

"Knemides" redirects here. For the ancient Greek military equipment, see Knemides (armor).

Cnemides or Knemides (Ancient Greek: Κνημῖδες), also Cnemis or Knemis (Κνῆμις),^[1] is the name of a fortress, and probably of a town, in ancient Phocis. Strabo places Cnemides on Cape Cnemides opposite the islands called Lichades and the Euboean promontory Cenaeum, distant 20 stadia from Thronium and from Daphnus.^[2]^[3]^[4] The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, successively describing towns along the Phocian coast, places Cnemides after Thronium and before Elateia and Panopeus.^[1]^[5]

The site of Cnemides is near the modern Gouvali.^[6]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax , p. 23; Pliny. Naturalis Historia . Book 4.7.12.
^ Strabo. Geographica . Vol. 9.4.4. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Ptolemy. The Geography . Vol. 3.15.10.
^ Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 2.3.67.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Western Lokris". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 668. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9 , with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cnemis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray.