Derrhium
Δέρριον
Derrhium (Δέρριον), a place in Laconia on Mt. Taygetus, containing a statue of Artemis Derrhiatis in the open air, and near it a fountain called Anonus. (Paus. 3.20.7.) The site of the place is uncertain. Stephanus B. calls it DERA (s. v. Δέρα), and gives as Ethnic names Δεραῖος and Δερεάτης.
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.