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Cierium
(189 words)
[German version] (Κιέριον;
Kiérion). City in the Thessalian
tetras Thessaliotis in the valley of the Cuarius (modern Sophaditikos or Onochonos), founded by invading Thessalians as their main town, north-east of the Boeotian founded town of Arne [2]; in the following period, they drove the Boeotians back south to their historical seats (Thuc. 1,12,3; Str. 9,5,14). Arne is equated with Makria-Magoula, C. with the ruins on a nearby hill near the modern Pyrgos Kieriou. Near C. was the Thessalian tribal san…
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Nelia
(157 words)
[German version] (Νήλεια;
Nḗleia). A town in Magnesia [1], incorporated into Demetrias [1], mentioned only in Str. 9,5,15. Owing to the rare ancien…
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Spercheius
(174 words)
[German version] (Σπερχειός/
Spercheiós). River that has formed the basin between Othris and Oete in the south of Thessaly; it rises in the Tymphrestus, and nowadays, after a c…
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Armenium
(180 words)
[German version] (Ἀρμένιον;
Arménion). Town in Thessaly, according to Homer's catalogue of ships located near Pherae on L. Boebe (Hom. Il. 2,734: Ὀρμένιον;
Orménion); in the Hellenistic period, it was a kome, belonging to Demetrias (Str. 9,5,15; 18). Its eponymous hero was Armenus, who went to Colchis with Jason (Str. 11,4,8; 14,12). The ancient settlement is localized north of Pherae (modern Velestino) near the modern villages of Neon Perivalion and Armenion, where a hill (Petra) bearing the remains of Cyclopean…
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Celaetha
(108 words)
[German version] (Κελαίθα;
Kelaítha). Town, according to a list of
theorodokoi from Delphi from the 2nd cent. BC, located near Cierium and Metr…
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Antron
(169 words)
[German version] (Ἄντρων;
Ántrōn). City in Achaea Phthiotis, on the Malian Gulf opposite Euboea, on a cliff
c. 25 m above the sea, near the modern Fano. Remains of the very old city wall and necropoleis from the Mycenaean to the Roman periods have survived. Homer (Il. 2,697; Hymn. Dem. 491 [1. 181-183]) mentions A. and its cult of Demeter. In 342 BC Philippus II made A. a Macedonian possession by means of bribery. In 302 BC A. was captured by Demetrius. A. evidently remained a Macedonian possession until th…
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Tisaeum
(72 words)
[German version] (Τίσαιον;
Tísaion). Mountain in the south of Magnesia [1] (modern Bardzochia, 644 m elevation); today, the whole of the east-west part of the peninsula is called T. The Argonauts passed by this mountain (Apoll. Rhod. 1,568 ff.). There was a temple to Diana Tisaea there (Val. Fl. 2,7) and a station for signalling by fire to Demetrias [1] (Pol. 10,42,7; Liv. 28,5,17).…
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Peirasia
(147 words)
[German version] (Πειρασία;
Peirasía). A city in the northeast of Thessaliotis (Thessalians, Thessalia), with ruins on the isolated 313 m high limestone mountain of Strongylovuno south of the modern Vlochós on the left bank of the Enipeus [2]. It was identified with the Homeric
Astérion (Hom. Il. 2,735) (Steph. Byz. s.v. Ἀστέριον), and was allied with Athens in 431 BC (Thuc. 2,22,3 with schol.). Its contributions for the Delphic temple in 359/7 BC are attested in inscriptions (Syll.…
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Aenianes
(603 words)
[German version] (Αἰνιᾶνες;
Ainiânes). Small tribe, related to the Myrmidones and the Achaeans of Phthia, originally settled in the vicinity of the Perrhaebi at the river Titaresius and in the surrounding plains, then driven south by the Thessalians advancing from the north; in historical times, they settled in the Aenis region in the upper valley of the Spercheus between the Dolopes, the Achaeans of Phthiotis, the Malieis and the Oetaei (Hom. Il. 2,749; Hdt. 7,198; further sources [1; 2]). Th…
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Myrae
(53 words)
[German version] (Μύραι/
Mýrai, Scyl. 65; or to be corrected to Εὐρέα[ι]/
Euréa[i]? Cf. [1]). Town in the north of the peninsula of Magnesia [1], south of Homole, location unknown. Kramolisch, Herwig (Eppelheim) Bibliography
1 J.A.W. Warren, Two Notes on Thessalian Coins, in: NC 7,1, 1961, 1-8. F. Stählin, s.v. M., RE 16, 1089.
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Limnaeum
(88 words)
[German version] (Λιμναῖον;
Limnaîon, Latin Limnaeum). In 191 BC, the Romans and Philip V marched through eastern Thessaly to drive out Antiochus III and the Athamanians. During the siege of Pelinna, Philip also attacked L. which did not surrender until the Roman cavalry appeared (Liv. 36,13,9ff.). There is a lack of other information. L. has recently been localized near Vlochos above the swampy confluence region of the rivers Enipeus [2] and Peneius. Kramolisch, Herwig (Eppelheim) Bibliography J. Cl. Decourt, La vallée de l'Enipeus en Thessalie, 1990, 120f.
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Othrys
(166 words)
[German version] (Ὄθρυς/
Óthrys). Range of mountains,
c. 85 km long and 45 km wide, between the Malian Gulf and the Spercheus valley on one side and Thessalia on the other. The O. consists of several chains of mountains (slate, lime) and predominantly has the character of a low mountain range. To the south it falls of steeply in a straight edge, but to the north it is more structured. The greatest elevation is Yerakovouni (1726 m). Politically the region …
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Hypata
(352 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Education / Culture (Ὑπάτα;
Hypáta). Capital of the Aenianes (HN 296), not shown to have existed before the 5th or beginning of the 4th cent. BC, situated on a terrace cut off by ravines above the Spercheus valley on the northern slope of Mount Oete ( Oetaei, Oete), modern Hypate. The fates of city and tribe largely coincide (references [1; 2; 3]), Macedonian rule began around 344, and following the interlude of the Lamian War, the rule was replaced by the Aetolian League from
c. 273. In the year 191 Acilius [I 10] ravaged t…
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Methylium
(67 words)
[German version] (Μεθύλιον;
Methýlion). Town in western Thessaly, mentioned on coins and in a Delphic list of
theorodókoi. Its location can only be approximately identified, between Cierium and Metropolis [4] in the region of Karditsa. Kramolisch, Herwig (Eppelheim) Bibliography B. Helly, Incursions chez les Dolopes, in: I. Blum (ed.), Topographie antique et géographie historique en pays grec, 1992, 85ff. F. Stählin, s.v. Methylion, RE 15, 1391.
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Argissa
(156 words)
[German version] (Ἄργισσα;
Árgissa). Listed in the ships' catalogue of the Iliad (Hom. Il. 2,738) as the city of the Lapith Polypoetes, it was equated even in ancient times wit…
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