Thyron (Ancient Greek: Θρύον), sometimes Latinized as Thryum, or Thryoessa (Θρυόεσσα) was a town in Triphylia in ancient Elis, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad, where the town is noted to be in the dominions of Nestor.
[2] Later in the Iliad, the poet describes Thyron was at the ford of the river Alpheius.
In the same passage, Homer calls the town Thryoessa, places it upon a lofty hill, and relates how it withstood a siege by the Epeii during their war against the Eleans.
[3] Strabo identified Thyron with the later Epitalium;[4] but the identity is uncertain.
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