Parga

PARGA (“Toryne”) Greece.

A ladle-shaped port in S Epeiros which Octavian occupied before the battle of Actium (Plut. Ant. 62). The vicinity has yielded a Mycenaean tholos tomb and later tombs, and there are remains of ancient walls in the foundations of the Turkish fort.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

P. M. Petsas in EphArch (1955) 14; S. I. Dakaris in Ergon (1960) 110; N.G.L. Hammond, Epirus (1967) 76f, 688.

N.G.L. HAMMOND