39°53′55″N 22°11′15″E / 39.8987°N 22.1875°E / 39.8987; 22.1875
Map showing ancient Thessaly. Oloosson is shown to the upper centre.
Oloosson (
Ancient Greek : Ὀλοοσσών )
[1] was a town and
polis (city-state)
[2] of
Perrhaebia in
ancient Thessaly near
Elone and
Gonnus ,
[3] mentioned in the
Catalogue of Ships in the
Iliad by
Homer , who gives to it the epithet of “white,” from its white argillaceous soil.
[4] In
Procopius the name occurs in the corrupt form of Lossonus .
[5]
Several Greek inscriptions have been found concerning the city of Oloosson. In a votive inscription from the first half of the fourth century BCE that is dedicated to
Apollo Pythius are also the names of some people together with various demonyms from Perrhaebia.
[6] In another inscription dated in the 1st century BCE, election procedures of
magistrates are mentioned.
[7]
Ancient Oloosson was located at a site called
Panayia in the modern town of
Elassona .
[8]
[9]
References
^
Stephanus of Byzantium . Ethnica . Vol. s.v .
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions".
An inventory of archaic and classical poleis . New York:
Oxford University Press . p.
725 .
ISBN
0-19-814099-1 .
^
Strabo .
Geographica . Vol. ix. p.440. Page numbers refer to those of
Isaac Casaubon 's edition.
^
Homer .
Iliad . Vol. 2.739.
^ Procop. de Aedif. 4.14
^ Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal,
Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC) , tesis doctoral, p.794. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012).
^ Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal,
Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC) , tesis doctoral, p.226. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012). , where the inscription is identified with the denomination IG (9) 2.1292 .
^
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 .
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Smith, William , ed. (1854–1857). "Oloosson".
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray.