Rhytium
Ῥύτιον
Rhytium (Ῥύτιον, Steph. B. sub voce Plin. Nat. 4.20: Eth. Ῥυτιεύς), a town of Crete which Homer (Hom. Il. 2.648) couples with Phaestus as well-peopled cities.
The city belonged to the Gortynians (Strab. x. p.479; Nonnus, Dionys. 13.233.) The corrupt reading Ῥυθίμνη in Steph. B. sub voce (s. v. Στῆλαι) should be emended into Ῥύτιον. (Höck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 414.) The city must have existed somewhere on or close to the route which leads from Kastelianá to Haghíus Dhéka; but Pashley (Crete, vol. i. p. 293) could find no vestiges of antiquity in the neighbourhood.
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.