Rhithymna

Rhithymna

Rhithymna or Rithymna (Greek: polytonic|Ῥίθυμνα) or Rhithymnia (Greek: polytonic|Ῥιθυμνία), was an ancient town of Crete, Greece, which is mentioned by Ptolemy (iii. 17. § 7) and Pliny the Elder (iv. 20) as the first town on the north coast to the east of Amphimalla, and is spoken of as a Cretan city by Stephanus of Byzantium, in whose text its name is written Rhithymnia; Stephanus gives the city's ethnonyms as polytonic|Ῥιθυμνιάτης and polytonic|Ῥιθύμνιος). It is also alluded to by Lycophron (76). The modern Rethymno retains the name of the ancient city upon the site of which it stands. Rhithymna minted coins in antiquity; maritime emblems are found on them. Eckhel, "Numi Vet. Anecdoti", p. 155; Rasche, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 1024; Pashley, "Crete", vol. i. p. 101.)

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*Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), p. 60.


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