Eurymenae or Eurymenai ( Ancient Greek: Εὐρυμεναί or Εὐρυμέναι) [1] or Erymnae or Erymnai (Ὲρυμναί) [2] was a town and polis (city-state) [3] in Magnesia, ancient Thessaly, situated upon the Aegean Sea coast at the foot of Mount Ossa, between Rhizus and Myrae. [1] [4] [5] Pliny the Elder relates that crowns thrown into a fountain at Eurymenae became stones. [6] It was destroyed by Lyciscus in the 4th century BCE.
The site has been located at a place called Kokkino Nero. [7] [8]
References
- ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ὲρυμναί.
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 718. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 25.
- ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 39.25.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 31.2.20.
- ^ 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.
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