Dion - Adun - ancient Capitolias, one of the Decapolis cities (a ten-city Greco-Roman federation) is located on the site of the village of Beit Ras.
Pausanias: These were made by Tisander, but the next were made by Alypus of Sicyon, namely:—Theopompus the Myndian, Cleomedes of Samos, the two Euboeans Aristocles of Carystus and Autonomus of Eretria, Aristophantus of Corinth, Apollodorus of Troezen, and Dion from Epidaurus in Argolis. 1.
See:
- Pausanias: Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918
References
- ↑Pausanias X.9