Upper Larymna

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Upper Larymna (Ancient Greek: Άνω Λάρυμνα, romanized: Ano Larymna) was a town of the Opuntian Locris, later of ancient Phocis and later still of ancient Boeotia, on the river Cephissus. Strabo relates that the Cephissus emerged from its subterranean channel at Upper Larymna and joined the sea at the Lower Larymna and that Upper Larymna had belonged to ancient Phocis until it was annexed to the Lower or Boeotian Larymna by the Romans. Upper Larymna belonged originally to the Opuntian Locris, and Lycophron mentions it as one of the towns of Ajax Oïleus.

Pausanias also states that it was originally Locrian; he adds that it voluntarily joined the Boeotian League on the increase of the power of the Thebans. This, however, probably did not take place in the time of Epaminondas, as the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, written subsequently, still calls it a Locrian town. It may have joined the Boeotian League after Thebes had been rebuilt by Cassander.

In 230 BCE, Larymna is described as a Boeotian town; in the time of Sulla it is again spoken of as a Boeotian town. Some scholars conclude from the preceding statements that the more ancient town was the Locrian (Upper) Larymna, situated at a spot...