Scarphe (Ancient Greek: Σκάρφη)[1] or Scarpheia (Σκάρφεια)[2][3] was a town of the Epicnemidian Locrians, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.
[2] Moreover, Scarphe was reported to be occupying the territory of Augeiae, which had disappeared by his time.
[2] It appears from Pausanias that it lay on the direct road from Elateia to Thermopylae by Thronium,[4] and likewise from Livy, who states that Lucius Quinctius Flamininus marched from Elateia by Thronium and Scarpheia to Heraclea.
Scarpheia is said by Strabo to have been destroyed by an inundation of the sea (tsunami) caused by an earthquake[6] in 426 BCE,[7] but it must have been afterwards rebuilt, as it is mentioned by subsequent writers down to a late period, including Pliny the Elder,[8] Ptolemy,[9] Hierocles,[10] Stephanus of Byzantium,[3] and the Geographer of Ravenna.
The site of the ancient town is tentatively identified as near Molos.