Rhithymna
Ῥίθυμνα
Rhithymna (Ῥίθυμνα), a town of Crete, which is mentioned by Ptolemy (3.17.7) and Pliny (4.20) as the first town on the N. coast to the E. of Amphimalla, and is spoken of as a Cretan city by Steph. B. sub voce in whose text its name is written Rhithymnia (Ῥιθυμνία: Eth.Ῥιθυμνιάτης, Eth. Ῥιθύμνιος). It is also alluded to by Lycophron (76). The modern Rhíthymnos or Retimo retains the name of the ancient city upon the site of which it stands. Eckhel (Numi Vet. Anecdoti, p. 155; comp. Rasche, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 1024) first assigned to Rhithymna its ancient coins; maritime emblems are found on them. (Pashley, Crete, vol. i. p. 101.)
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.