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en-wikipedia-org-5559		Cichyrus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1192	151	76	301), were supposed by Pausanias to be the Thesprotians inhabitants of the town.[8] but Strabo maintained that the poet referred to the Thessalian Ephyra (Strab. Some commentators even supposed the Ephyra on the Selleeis[9] to be the Thesprotian town, but Strabo expressly maintains that Homer alludes in these passages to the Eleian town.[10] Pausanias represents Cichyrus as the capital of the ancient kings of Thesprotia, where Theseus and Peirithous were thrown into chains by Aidoneus; and its celebrity in the most ancient times may also be inferred from a passage of Pindar.[11] The site of Ephyra is confirmed by the excavation of the ancient oracle of the dead, Necromanteion, on the hill of Agios Ioannis near the village of Mesopotamo, 150 m north of the junction of the Kokytos with the Acheron. ^ = 19870 Page of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Greece: Ephyra (in Greek) Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5559.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5559.txt