Qualla: Cichyrus https://qualla.com/cichyrus en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/x/cichyrus-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cichyrus https://qualla.com/cichyrus Cichyrus: Introduction https://qualla.com/cichyrus/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Odysseus came here for poison. According to the Odyssey, before he sailed for Troy he stopped at Ephyra — the city that would later be called Cichyrus — to obtain a toxin for his arrows. Theseus and his companion Perithoos came here to attempt the abduction of Persephone herself, wife of Hades, king of the underworld. Neoptolemos, son of Achilles, landed here on his return from Troy. The place drew heroes the way certain cities draw trouble, because the city that occupied this hill above the confluence of the Acheron and the Kokytos was not just a capital. It was the gateway to the dead.

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]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/x/cichyrus-wp/sqyx-cichyrus-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cichyrus: A City With Two Names https://qualla.com/cichyrus/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY-SA 3.0. The city had been called Ephyra since the mythological era — named, according to some traditions, after an early founder. But the Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the late first century BC and early first century AD, noted that the name had changed. The city was now called Kic...

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]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/x/cichyrus-wp/sqyx-cichyrus-a-city-with-two-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Cichyrus: The Oracle of the Dead https://qualla.com/cichyrus/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Necromanteion — the Oracle of the Dead — stood on the hill of Agios Ioannis near the village of Mesopotamo, about 150 meters north of where the Kokytos meets the Acheron. Ancient visitors came to the oracle not for prophecy in the usual sense, but for something more specific:...

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]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/x/cichyrus-wp/sqyx-cichyrus-the-oracle-of-the-dead.mp3 0:06 3 full Cichyrus: Bronze Age to Hellenistic Period https://qualla.com/cichyrus/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Excavations conducted between 1958 and 1987 by a team from the University of Ioannina, and expanded between 2006 and 2008, found that the site was first settled during the Bronze Age. The remains of the acropolis include the only Mycenaean fortification confirmed within the regio...

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]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/x/cichyrus-wp/sqyx-cichyrus-bronze-age-to-hellenistic-period.mp3 0:06 4 full Cichyrus: The Myths the City Collected https://qualla.com/cichyrus/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Some places accumulate mythology the way coastlines accumulate driftwood. Cichyrus-Ephyra acquired an extraordinary quantity. Heracles came and subjugated the city, fathering a son by the princess Astyoche — that son, Tlepolemus, became king of Rhodes. Thyestes arrived looking fo...

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