Kyathos? (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.M. Murray Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Oct 31, 2025 10:29 AM
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History
Mentioned by Polybius, the Kyathos river is probably to be identified with the modern Dimikos, which is located in the modern Greek Aetolia-Acarnania Regional Unit.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530968
38.5714113006, 21.2936596098
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location: modern Dimikos river (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Kyathos (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Less than certain: Δίμηκος ποταμός (Dimikos potamos: Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Less than certain: Neskhio (Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 D4 Kyathos? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dimikos, formerly Neskhio
W.M. Murray, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, and R. Talbert, 'Kyathos? (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530968> [accessed: 10 May 2026]
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