• of Locris. Today it is an important administrative and cultural centre on the Ionian Coast and within its province. Epizephyrian Locris or Locri Epizephyrii...
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    Locris (/ˈloʊkrɪs, ˈlɒk-/; Modern Greek: Λοκρίδα, romanized: Lokrída; Ancient Greek: Λοκρίς, romanized: Lokrís) was a region of ancient Greece, the homeland...
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    Epizephyrian Locris, also known as Locri Epizephyrii (Ancient Greek: Λοκροί Ἐπιζεφύριοι, romanized: Lokroí Epizephúrioi, lit. 'western Locrians'), was...
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  • Timaeus of Locri (/taɪˈmiːəs/; Ancient Greek: Τίμαιος ὁ Λοκρός, romanized: Tímaios ho Lokrós; Latin: Timaeus Locrus) is a character in two of Plato's...
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    Opuntian Locris or Eastern Locris was an ancient Greek region inhabited by the eastern division of the Locrians, the so-called tribe of the Locri Epicnemidii...
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  • Nicaea or Nikaia (Greek: Νίκαια), was an ancient fortress of the Epicnemidian Locrians, situated upon the sea, and close to the pass of Thermopylae. It...
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  • Locri Cathedral (Italian: Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Mastro; Duomo di Locri) is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the city...
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    Ozolian Locris (Ancient Greek: Ὀζολία Λοκρίς) or Hesperian Locris (Ancient Greek: Λοκρίς Ἑσπερία, lit. 'Western Locris') was a region in Ancient Greece...
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    celebrated in the month of Anthesterion were dedicated to her. The city of Locri Epizephyrii, in modern Calabria (southern Italy), was famous for its cult...
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  • Hessus or Hessos (Ancient Greek: Ἡσσός) was a town of the Ozolian Locrians, upon the coast of the Corinthian Gulf, and on the road to Naupactus. Its site...
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  • 38°24′44″N 22°18′57″E / 38.41224°N 22.315807°E / 38.41224; 22.315807 Tritaea or Triteia (Ancient Greek: Τρίτεια) was town of the Ozolian Locrians, described...
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  • Bessa (Ancient Greek: Βῆσσα) was a town in ancient Locris, so called from its situation in a wooded glen. It is mentioned by Homer, in the Catalogue of...
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  • Messapia (Ancient Greek: Μεσσαπία) was a town in Ozolian Locris. Its site is unlocated. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 3.101. Richard...
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  • Acrion (redirect from Arion of Locri)
    Acrion was a Locrian from Magna Graecia and a Pythagorean philosopher. He is mentioned by Valerius Maximus under the name of Arion. According to William...
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  • Byzantium. Along with Scarpheia, Thronium was one of only two towns of the Locri Epicnemidii to mint coins. The site of Thronium is near a place called Palaiokastro...
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    the earth".) was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the "Ajax the Less", the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax, to distinguish...
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  • 38°24′27″N 21°56′40″E / 38.40741°N 21.94436°E / 38.40741; 21.94436 Erythrae or Erythrai (Ancient Greek: Ἐρυθραί) was a town of the Ozolian Locrians...
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  • Phaestus or Phaestos or Phaistos (Ancient Greek: Φαιστός) was a town of the Ozolian Locrians, with a port called the port of Apollo Phaestius. The site...
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  • Doris (Ancient Greek: Δωρίς) of Locri Epizephyrii was the daughter of the rich Locrian, Xenetus, and became wife of the Sicilian tyrant Dionysius I of...
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  • and a lover of Apollo. She was the eponym of the city Amphissa in Ozolian Locris, where her memory was perpetuated by a splendid monument. One may assume...
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    Philistion of Locri (Greek: Φιλιστίων) was a Greek physician, medical and dietary author who lived in the 4th century BC. He was a native of Locri in Magna...
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    The Diocese of Locri-Gerace (Latin: Dioecesis Locrensis-Hieracensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Calabria. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese...
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  • Dionysius II of Syracuse was the son of Dionysius the Elder and Doris of Locri. When his father died in 367 BC, Dionysius, who was at the time under thirty...
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    Nossis (redirect from Nossis of Locri)
    (Greek: Νοσσίς, fl. c. 300 BC) was a Hellenistic poet from Epizephyrian Locris in Magna Graecia. Probably well-educated and from a noble family, Nossis...
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    Locrians (category Locris)
    Λοκροί, Lokroi) were an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited the region of Locris in Central Greece, around Parnassus. They spoke the Locrian dialect, a Doric-Northwest...
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    Messina and others were driven ashore on the beaches of Locri. The crew of the ships beached near Locri died when they were submerged by the backwash of the...
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  • defeated by a visitor to the island, sometimes identified as Euthymus of Locri, a boxer and Olympic victor. Because the ghost is sometimes described as...
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  • may refer to: Timaeus (dialogue), a Socratic dialogue by Plato Timaeus of Locri, 5th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher, appearing in Plato's dialogue Timaeus...
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  • (Ancient Greek: Οἶον) was a mountain fortress and town situated in eastern Locris, above Opus, and destroyed by an earthquake. Oeum has tentatively been located...
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  • later point, but passed to Croton after it defeated Sybaris in 510/09 BC. Locri conquered Temesa at some time in the first half of the fifth century BC...
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