THYMBRA
THYMBRA (
Θύμβρη or
Θύμβρα), a town of Troas, in the vicinity of Ilium. (
Hom. Il. 10.430;
Steph. B. sub voce Plin. Nat. 5.33.) Strabo (
xiii. p.598) speaks of it only as a plain traversed by the river Thymbrius.
The valley of Thymbra and the hill in it, called Callicolone (
Hom. Il. 20.53,
151; Strab.
l.c.), are said still to retain their ancient names. (Prokesch,
Denkwürdigkeiten, i. p. 145, foll.)
The town of Thymbra must have perished at an early period; but its name remained celebrated in religion, for Apollo, who had had a temple at Thymbra, is frequently called Thymbraeus (
Θυμβραῖος; Verg. A. 3.85; Eurip.
Rhésus, 224;
Steph. B. sub voce Θύμβρα).
