Cierium

39°22′00″N 22°03′59″E / 39.36679°N 22.06635°E / 39.36679; 22.06635

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Cierium is shown to the lower centre.

Cierium or Kierion (Ancient Greek: Κιέριον) was a town and polis (city-state)[1] in the district of Thessaliotis in ancient Thessaly,[2] which according to some ancient commentators, such as Stephanus of Byzantium[3] was the successor to the Homeric Arne, the chief town of the Aeolian Boeotians in Thessaly, from which they emigrated to Boeotia.[4]

  1. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 693-694. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.14. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ἅρνη.
  4. ^ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cierium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.