[1] It is mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad as governed by Protesilaus, to whom the neighbouring town of Antron also belonged.
[3] In 192 BCE, Antiochus III landed at Pteleum in order to carry on the war against the Romans in Greece.
[4] In 171 BCE, the town, having been deserted by its inhabitants, was destroyed by the consul Licinius.
[5] It seems never to have recovered from this destruction, as Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century, speaks of Pteleum only as a forest.
[6] Strabo relates that this city established a colony (also named Pteleum) in Elis.