Orthe (Thessaly)

Orthe (Greek: Ὄρθη) was a town of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly. mentioned by Homer as ruled by Polypoetes in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.[1] It was said by Strabo to have become the acropolis of Phalanna.[2] It occurs, however, in the lists of Pliny the Elder as a distinct town from Phalanna.[3] Some modern scholars accept the equivalence,[4] while others only do so tentatively.[5]

  1. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.739.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.440. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.9.16.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.