Cnemis

38°44′13″N 22°50′51″E / 38.73694°N 22.84750°E / 38.73694; 22.84750 Cnemis or Knemis (Template:Lang-grc; Template:Lang-el) was a range of mountains forming the boundary between Phocis and the Epicnemidian Locrians, who received their distinguishing name from this mountain. Mount Cnemis was a continuation of Callidromus, with which it was connected by a ridge, at the foot of which is the modern village of Mendenitsa.^[1]^[2] A spur of this mountain, running out into the sea, formed the promontory Cape Cnemides (Κνημῖδες), opposite the islands called Lichades and the Euboean promontory Cenaeum. Upon Cape Cnemides stood a fortress, also called Cnemides (or Cnemis),^[3] distant 20 stadia from Thronium.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. pp. 416, 425. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 66, 180.
^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 23; Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.7.12.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.426. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.15.10.
^ Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 2.3.67.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cnemis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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