THY´NIAS
THY´NIAS (
Θυνίας), a small island in the Euxine at a distance of one mile from the coast of Thynia or Bithynia; its distance from the port of Rhoë was 20 stadia, and from Calpe 40. (
Plin. Nat. 6.13; Arrian,
Peripl. P. E. p. 13.)
The island had only 7 stadia in circumference, and had at first been called Apollonia from a temple of Apollo which existed in it. (Plin., Arrian,
ll. cc.; Apollon. 2.177,
675; Anon.
Peripl. P. E. p. 3.)
According to Ptolemy (
5.1.15) it was also called Daphnusia, and obtained its name of Thynias from the Thyni, who inhabited the opposite coast.
The island had a port and a naval station belonging to Heracleia (
Scylax, p. 34; Arrian,
l.c.); and Mela (2.7) is probably mistaken in believing that the island contained a town of the same name. (Comp.
Strab. xii. p.543, where it is called Thynia; Marcian, p. 69;
Steph. B. sub voce Orph.
Argon. 717, where it bears the name Thyneis.)
The modern name of the island is
Kirpeh. [
L.S]
