Ophryneion

Ophryneion
Ὀφρύνειον
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Location	İntepe, Çanakkale Province, Turkey
Region	Troad
Coordinates	40°1′22″N 26°20′6″E / 40.02278°N 26.33500°E
Type	Settlement
History
Founded	6th century BC
Periods	Archaic Greece to Byzantine Empire

Ophryneion or Ophrynium (Ancient Greek: Ὀφρύνειον, romanized: Ophryneion) was an ancient Greek city in the northern Troad region of Anatolia. Its territory was bounded to the west by Rhoiteion and to the east by Dardanus. It was located about 1.5 km north-east of the village of Erenköy in Çanakkale Province, Turkey.^[1] The city was situated on the steep brow of a hill overlooking the Dardanelles, hence the origin of its Ancient Greek name ὀφρῦς (ophrus), meaning 'brow of a hill', 'crag'.^[2]

^ Cook (1973) 72–7 with Fig. 3.
^ The usage of ὀφρῦς in Greek is the same as that of 'brow' in English, where it denotes both the physionomic feature and, by virtue of the likeness, the geographical feature: LSJ s.v. ὀφρῦς A.2.II.

[1] Cook (1973) 72–7 with Fig. 3.

[2] The usage of ὀφρῦς in Greek is the same as that of 'brow' in English, where it denotes both the physionomic feature and, by virtue of the likeness, the geographical feature: LSJ s.v. ὀφρῦς A.2.II.

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