Oracle of Abai - a lesser known oracle

The Oracle of Abai was in Locria. Some say the Persian commander Mardonius consulted it before the battle of Salamis. Since he was a Persian maybe this was just a rumour. He defeated the United Greeks at Thermopylai although the Spartans under Leonidas certainly gave him something to think about.
   The Doric tetrapolis was composed of four cities exactly like the Quad Cities in America. The tetrapolis consisted of Erineos Boium Cytinium and Pindus. The tetrapolis was located in the valley of the Pindus river. There is also an Attic tetrapolis.
    A neapolis is basically a new town. Neapolis is based where Naples is located now and is the place where the fashion editor of Tatler, the eccentric aristocrat Isabella Blow, wanted to do a risqué topless fashion shoot to be called "Nipples in Naples" but the head said no so she went back to Elizabeth Street and told a male model she had a terrible day and said "stick it up my hourglass darling" I digress. It's nice to relate modern day tales with classic geography ha ha.
   Metapontium was in Italia I believe.
   The Lokrians went on to found Locri in southern Italy and were mostly people from the city of Opus. There were some Lacedaimonians involved too as they always seem to get their oar in matters. The main cities of Western Lokria were Naupaktos and Amphissa, so I was mistaken about Opus being the main city. It was a split region being on both coasts. They say there might have been an invasion that split the original Dorian and Locrian state. Opus was in fact the main city of the more northern Opuntian Locrian part. Ozolian Lokrians were considered to be the less civilised of the Lokrians. The main towns of Epiknemidian Lokris on the Malian coast were Larymna and Thronium. Skarpheia and Nicaia were up there on the Malian coast.
   At Naupaktos the Herakleidai built their fleet to invade the Peloponnesos and has always been associated with shipbuilding ever since. Seems they can't shake off the legacy of Hercules. Naupaktos was still operational as a naval station in roman times.
  So Locris was split down the middle by Doris. Locris never caught on as a woman's name like Doris. Locris Day. Nah. The Ainianians bordered the west.
   Thermopylai. The Asopus river emerges nearby into the Malian gulf and it's tributary the Phoenix joins nearby. The coast has changed a lot since 480 bc and the coastal pass of Thermopylai used to be practically on the coast or a little bit set back. The Persians came in through the Anopean Mts into Trachinia. The Persian camp was on the banks of the Melas river not far from the city of Trachin. Just north of Heraclea. The Sperchius and Dyras rivers empty into the Malian gulf north of Trachin. Antikyra lies on the Sperchius.
   At the battle of Thermopylai the Persians under Mardonius won but not without exceptional courage and bravery from the vastly outnumbered Greeks and Spartans under Leonidas. The Greeks under Themistocles saw the Persians home at the naval battle of Salamis and another land-based battle at Platea during the second Persian war. Xerxes's  men left for Persia very displeased, diseased and wounded and didn't return for a long time in the third Persian war.