NARYKA
or Naryx (Rengini) Lokris, Greece.
A city in the E part of the region known chiefly as
the site of the cult of Ajax Stammheros. It was destroyed
by the Phokians in 352 B.C. during their war against
Boiotia, but was rebuilt perhaps as early as 335 B.C. and
survived at least until the time of Hadrian. An inscription
found in excavating a late temple at Haghios Joannis,
below the mediaeval castle of Rengini, has fixed the
location, thought by Bursian to be the predecessor of
Pharygai at modern Mendenitsa. The Classical city,
which had an outlet to the sea at Thronion, would have
commanded the route from N to central Greece. There
are a few visible remains of the Roman and Christian
periods, with traces of Hellenic walls on the E slope of
the acropolis.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Strab. 9.4.2;
Diod. Sic. 14.82, 16.38;
C. Bursian,
Geographie von Griechenland (1872) 190;
N. S. Papadakis in
Deltion 6 (1921) 141.3; W. A. Oldfather in
RE 16
2 (1935) 1772; A. Philippson-Kirsten,
GL (1950-59) I
2 345, 718
M.
M. H. MCALLISTER
