Thetonium or Thetonion (Ancient Greek: Θητώνιον), also Theton (Θητών), was a town and polis of Thessaliotis in ancient Thessaly.[1][2][3]
The town in mentioned in an inscription dated between 450-425 BCE that is the oldest writing where the title of tagus of Thessaly is mentioned. It is an honorary decree for a certain Soter of Corinth. The acting tagus of Thetonium would be responsible for compliance with the conditions of this decree. In the same text it also appears that Thetonium had a ὑλωρός, which was a post that had surveillance functions in rural areas.[4][5]
It site is located at a site called Kypritsi near modern Gefiria.[6]
References
Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 707. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), tesis doctoral, p.196. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012). (in Spanish)
IG 9(2).257.
Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), pp. 244, 261, 262.
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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