Derium or Derion (Ancient Greek: Δήριον) was a town of ancient Acarnania. The city is attested by epigraphic Greek inscriptions of the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, among which are a record of theorodokoi receiving theoroi of Nemea dated to 331/0–313 BCE,[1] an inscription in the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus where proxenos is named as a citizen of Derium,[2] and a treaty between the Ateolians and Acarnanians of the 3rd century BCE.[3] The inhabitants of Derium are also mentioned by Diodorus, which indicates that towards the year 314 BCE, they settled in Agrinium on the advice of Cassander.[4]
References
edit- ^ SEG 36:331 A 41-43.
- ^ ''Inscriptions of the Asclepeion of Epidaurus 42,61,65.
- ^ IG IX,1² 1:3,23.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 19.67.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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