Modern Description:
To the west of Loutra Aedipsou, pushing deep into the Malian Gulf, stretches the tranquil Lichada peninsula, dense with pines and olive groves which clad the headland's graceful summit of Xerosouvála (738m). The mountain and its offshore islets are associated in myth with the hapless servant, Lichas, who delivered the Shirt of Nessus to Hercules and was, for his service, hurled down into the sea here by the hero (Ovid, Metamorphoses IX, 211). From Licháda the road leads down to Cape Kinaion (33.5 km) – a beautiful spot, popular for bathing, with the islets and the sweep of the Phthotian and Thessalian shores in front. Little remains (and nothing is visible) of the Temple of Zeus Kenaios which stood to the north of here, other than an eroded piece of frieze lying beside the Church of SS. Helen and Constantine which stands by the edge of the road back to Aghios Giorgios from the cape. There has been speculation as to the site near this cape of ancient Dios, mentioned by Homer (Iliad II, 538) as having ‘a steep citadel'. Trismegistos Geo: 61208 Manto: 8254035 DARE: 36764
