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Philium

Ağva · Ağa · Yeşilçay

Philium takes its name from the river Psillis, which the ancient sources spell with Ph and with Ps alike, perhaps from a word for flowing water; the place lay near today's Ağva on the Black Sea coast of Bithynia. Apollonius tells how the Argonauts sailed past its mouth, where Dipsacus had once welcomed Phrixus as he fled with the ram. Arrian notes that small ships could anchor by a rock near the river mouth, and there was good water and timber for shipbuilding. A Roman bridge still crosses the river upstream.

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