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Antikyra or Anticyra ( Ancient Greek: Αντίκυρα, romanized: Antíkyra [1] or Ἀντίκιρρα [2] - Antíkirra or Ἀντίκυρρα [3] - Antíkyrra or Ἀντίκυραι [4] - Antíkyrae) was an ancient Greek city and polis (city-state) on the right bank of the Spercheios near its mouth on the Malian Gulf in district of Malis in Thessaly. [5] [6] [7] To its south lay Mount Oeta. To distinguish it from the city of the same name in Phocis (now Boeotia), the Thessalian Antikyra was often distinguished as Malian Antikyra.[ citation needed] Both were famed for their black and white hellebore, a prized herb in ancient Greek medicine. [8]
The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World tentatively identify the site of Anticyra at the modern village of Kostalexis (Κωσταλέξης) in the municipality of Lamia. [9]