Buchetium or Bouchetion (Ancient Greek: Βουχέτιον), or Buchaetium or Bouchaition (Βουχαίτιον),[1] or Buchetum or Boucheton (Βουχετόν),[2] or Bucheta or Boucheta (Βούχετα),[3] was a city of the Cassopaei in ancient Thesprotia, a little above the sea.[1]

According to the legend it got its name because Themis went there, mounted on an ox, during the flood of Deukalion.[4]

Its site was occupied by the medieval settlement of Rogoi, near modern Nea Kerasounta.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 Strabo. Geographica. Vol. vii. p.324. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ↑ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 22.9.
  3. ↑ Dem. de Halonn. § 32; Harpocrat. s. v.
  4. ↑ Suda, §th.114
  5. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54, and directory notes accompanying.
  6. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Buchaetium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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