Anticyra

Antikyra or Anticyra (Greek: Ἀντίκυρα, Antíkyra) was an ancient Greek city in Phocis located within present-day Antikyra.

Until the early 20th century it was called "Aspra Spitia" (Ἄσπρα Σπίτια), a name given after 1960 to a wholly new adjacent settlement, 3 km to the East; in Phocis, on the bay of Anticyra, in the Corinthian gulf; some remains are still visible. It was a town of considerable importance in ancient times.
It is identified with the Homeric Kyparissos, appearing in the Catalogue of Ships, from where the Phokian fleet sailed to Aulis and then to Troy. In Roman times still existed in Antikyra the grave of the two brothers Schedios and Epistrophos, the admirals of the Phokian fleet. The name Kyparissos was due to the city's mythical founder, Kyparissos, who was son of Orchomenus and brother of the king Minyas.

According to a different tradition the city was named Antikyra after another mythical hero, Antikyreus, who cured Herakles' mania with hellebore.
Hellebore was the main reason for Antikyras' fame all over the ancient world. The city was famous for its black hellebore (helleborus niger), and for a drug elaborated from the base of white hellebore (veratrum album). Both species of hellebore are herbs which grew in the vicinity of Antikyra and were regarded as a cure for insanity. This circumstance gave rise to a number of proverbial expressions, like Αντικυρας σε δει or "naviget Anticyram," and to frequent allusions in the Greek and Latin writers. Hellebore was likewise considered beneficial in cases of gout and epilepsy.

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