Pandosia (Bruttium)

[2] The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World places the site of the city in the vicinity of Cosenza,[3] but the village Acri and Castrolibero has been suggested as a more precise location.

Its only historical celebrity arises from its being the place near which Alexander, king of Epirus, was slain in the Battle of Pandosia by the Lucanians, 331 BCE.

[7] The name of Pandosia is again mentioned by Livy[8] in the Second Punic War, among the Bruttian towns retaken by the consul P. Sempronius, in 204 BCE; and it is there noticed, together with Consentia, as opposed to the ignobiles aliae civitates.

It is described as a strong fortress, situated on a hill, which had three peaks, whence it was called, in the oracle Πανδοσία τρικόλωνος[10] In addition to the vague statements of Strabo and Livy above cited, it is enumerated by Scymnus Chius between Crotona and Thurii.

[11] It is true that Theopompus,[12] in speaking of that event, described Pandosia as a city of the Lucanians, but this is a very natural error, as it was, in fact, near the boundaries of the two nations,[13] and the passages of Livy[14] and Strabo can leave no doubt that it was really situated in the land of the Bruttians.