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Olizon (Ancient Greek: Ὀλιζών) was an ancient Greek town and polis (city-state) of Magnesia located in the region of Thessaly.[1][2][3][4] Olizon is mentioned by Homer, who gives it the epithet of "rugged"; and in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, Olizon formed part of the territories of Philoctetes.[5]
It is also mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as a city in Magnesia, together with Iolcus, Spalauthra, Methone and Coracae.[6] In Strabo's time, it formed part of the dependent territories of Demetrias on a section of the coast where Thaumacia and Meliboea also stood.[7] Plutarch wrote that it was located opposite Artemisium in Euboea.[8]
Olizon is located at the Palaiokastro (old fort) at Agios Andreas.[9][10]
- ^ Hansen & Nielsen 2004, "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions", p. 721.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.436. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.9.16.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.717.
- ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 65.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.15-16. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Plut. Them. 8.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.