Eurymenae

For the ancient city in Epirus, see Eurymenae (Epirus).

Eurymenae or Eurymenai (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυμεναί or Εὐρυμέναι)[1] or Erymnae or Erymnai (Ὲρυμναί)[2] was a town and polis (city-state)[3] in Magnesia, ancient Thessaly, situated upon the Aegean Sea coast at the foot of Mount Ossa, between Rhizus and Myrae.[1][4][5] Pliny the Elder relates that crowns thrown into a fountain at Eurymenae became stones.[6] It was destroyed by Lyciscus in the 4th century BCE.

The site has been located at a place called Kokkino Nero.[7][8]

  1. ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ὲρυμναί.
  3. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 718. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  4. ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 25.
  5. ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 39.25.
  6. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 31.2.20.
  7. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  8. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.