Demetrium

39°17′19″N 22°53′47″E Demetrium or Demetrion (Ancient Greek: Δημήτριον), was a town of Phthiotis in ancient Thessaly, whose name derived from a temple of Demeter near Pyrasus spoken of by Homer in the Iliad, and which Strabo describes as the successor settlement to, and two stadia distant from Pyrasus.^[1] Besides Strabo, Demetrium is mentioned by numerous ancient authors: in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax,^[2] by Livy,^[3] Pomponius Mela,^[4] and Stephanus of Byzantium.^[5]

The site of Demetrium is tentatively located within Kantiraga (Marathos).^[6][7]