Mount Thourion
Conical hill in Ancient Greece From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Thourion or Thurium Mons was the name of a conical hill in Ancient Greece. A temple to the cult of the Muses may have been situated here.[1]
| Mount Thourion | |
|---|---|
| Thurium Mons | |
 Mount Thourion Location of Mount Thourion in Greece | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 188 m (617 ft) |
| Coordinates | 38°30′0.91″N 22°49′28.05″E / 38.5002528; 22.8244583][[Category:Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas]]"},"html":"Coordinates: </templatestyles>\"}' data-mw='{\"name\":\"templatestyles\",\"attrs\":{\"src\":\"Module:Coordinates/styles.css\"},\"body\":{\"extsrc\":\"\"}}'/>38°30′0.91″N 22°49′28.05″E / 38.5002528°N 22.8244583°E"}"> |
| Geography | |
| Location | Central Greece |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | Antiquity |
| Easiest route | Hike |
The location of the hill was gradually forgotten[2] and was rediscovered in February 1990 by an archaeologist and four graduate students from the University of California, Berkeley.[3] In Plutarch's “Life of Sulla”, the hill is noted as having been the site of a monument to two townsmen of Chaeronea named Homoloichos and Anaxidamos, for their assistance to Sulla during the Battle of Chaeronea. The two showed Sulla's troops a back way up Thourion, enabling them to surprise the invading Pontic soldiers.[4]
In gratitude, a monument was erected on the summit with their names carved on it in Greek letters.[5] The rediscovered monument was a marble block, about three feet wide and one foot high, inscribed with three words “HOMOLOICHOS,” “ANAXIDAMOS,” and “aristis” (Greek for heroes).[6]
A site likely to be that of the temple of Apollo Thourios was also found.
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