Hessus
Ἡσσός
Hessus (Ἡσσός: Eth. Ἥσσιος), a town of the Locri Ozolae, upon the coast of the Corinthian gulf, and on the road to Naupactus. Its exact site is uncertain, but it is probably represented by the Hellenicr emains at Víthari or Polypórtu. (Thuc. 3.101; Steph. B. sub voce Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 620.)
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.