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Dyme
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| O: laureate head of Zeus | R: fish under (AX) monogram, (APT) left and ΔΥ up all within wreath |
| silver hemidrachm of Achaean League struck in Dyme around 86 BC. Coin was struck with worn dies.
ref.: BMC 29, Sear GCV 2974, Clerk 55, BCD Peloponnesos 482 | |
Dyme (Ancient Greek: Δύμη), or Dymae,[1] was a town and polis (city-state)[2] of ancient Achaea, and the most westerly of the 12 Achaean cities, from which circumstance it is said to have derived its name.[3][4][5] The location of Dyme is near the modern Kato Achaia.[6][7]
- ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 27.31.
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Achaia". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 481–482. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 1.145.
- ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2.41.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.387. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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