Thornax
Θόρναξ
Thornax (Θόρναξ)
1.
A mountain near the city of Hermione in Argolis, between which and Mt Pron the road ran from Hermione to Halice. It was subsequently called Coccygium, because Zeus was said to have been here transformed into a cuckoo; and on its summit was a temple of Zeus Coccygius. (Paus. 2.36.1, 2; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 288; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 463.)
2.
A mountain in Laconia, on the road from Sparta to Sellasia, upon which stood a colossal statue of Apollo Pythaeus. (Hdt. 1.69; Paus. 3.10.8; Steph. B. sub voce Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 534, Peloponnesiaca, pp. 348, 352; Boblaye, Rech. p. 75; Ross, Peloponnes, p. 190; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. pp. 237, 259.)
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.