Tarphe
Τάρφη
Tarphe (Τάρφη: Eth. Ταρφαῖος), a town of the Locri Epicnemidii, mentioned by Homer (Hom. Il. 2.533). It was situated upon a height in a fertile and woody country, and was said to have derived its name from the thickets in which it stood. In the time of Strabo it had changed its name into that of Pharygae (Φαρύγαι), and was said to have received a colony from Argos. It contained a temple of Hera Pharygaea. It is probably the modern Pundonítza. (Strab. ix. p.426; Groskurd and Kramer, ad loc.; Steph. B. sub voce Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 179.)
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.