A coastal district in eastern-central Boeotia.
King Oileus ruled the Lokrians at the time of the Trojan War. His son Aias commanded the Achaian (Achaean) soldiers from Lokris. Aias took forty ships to Troy, which would have carried approximately 4,600 men.
Cities in Lokris that supplied soldiers for the assault on Troy included—lovely Augeiai (Augeiae), Bessa, Kalliaros (Calliarus), Kynos (Cynus), Opoeis, Skarphe (Scarphe), Tarphe, Thronion (Thronium), and the vicinity of the Boagrios (Boagrius) River.
| References: Homer, Iliad book 2, lines 527, 535; book 13, lines 686, 712 |