Thetidium

39°21′36″N 22°30′11″E / 39.360086°N 22.502967°E / 39.360086; 22.502967 Thetidium or Thetidion or Thetideion (Ancient Greek: Θετίδιον,[1][2] Θετίδειον,[3] or Θεστίδειον[4]) was a town in Thessaliotis in ancient Thessaly, close to Pharsalus, where Flamininus encamped at the end of the second march from Pherae towards Scotussa, before the Battle of Cynoscephalae. It derived its name from Thetis, the mother of Achilles, the national hero of the Achaean Phthiotae.[5]

Its site is at a location called Agios Athanasios or Kato Dasolofos, within the boundaries of the modern village of Thetidio, which echoes the ancient name.[6][7]

  1. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.431. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 18.3, 4.
  3. ^ Euripides, Androm. 20.
  4. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Θετιδεύς.
  5. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Thetidium
  6. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  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.