The archaic name for Delphi.
During the Trojan War, Skhedios and Epistrophos commanded the Achaian soldiers from Phokis including the cities of Pytho, Anemoreia, Daulis, Hyampolis, Krisa, Kyparissos, Lilaia, Panopeus, and the vicinity of the Kephisos River.
Now known as Delphi, Pytho served as the site of the primary oracle of the god Apollon for over a thousand years. Located on the flanks of Mount Parnassos, Pytho was famous throughout the civilized world. Apollon forcibly took the site from a dragon named Python, thus we have the name Pytho.1 Other accounts say Apollon defeated a she-dragon, who was a half-beastial maiden,2 named Delphyne or Delphyna,3 thus we have the name Delphi.
1. Nonnos, Dionysiaca XII
2. Apollodorus, The Library book 1.6.3
3. Callimachus, Aetia book 4.88
