Amarynthus
Ἀμάρυνφος
Amarynthus (Ἀμάρυνφος: Eth.Ἀμαρυν́φιος, Eth. Ἀμαρύσιος), a town upon the coast of Euboea, only 7 stadia from Eretria, to which it belonged. It possessed a celebrated temple of Artemis, who was hence called Amarynthia or Amarysia, amid in whose honour there was a festival of this name celebrated, both in Eutboea and Attica. (Strab. p. 448; Paus. 1.31.5; Liv. 35.38; Steph. B. sub voce s. v.; Dict. of Ant. art. Amarynthia.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.