TRIKASTRON
(“Pandosia”) Greece.
A colony
of Elis (D.7.32) on a crag above the Acheron gorge in
Epeiros. The circuit wall, ca. 1050 m long, has strong
towers, probably a later addition. The site controls the
entry from Cassopaea in the S to the upper valley of the
Acheron river. A famous oracular utterance of Dodona
associated “three-hilled Pandosia” with the Acheron
(
Strab. 6.1.5); it issued coinage for a short time.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
N.G.L. Hammond in
Ἀφιέρωμα εἰς τὴν Ἤπειρον (1954) 26ff;
Epirus (1967) 162f, 554, 642f, and Pl. IX
b.
N.G.L. HAMMOND