Eurymenae

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.

For the ancient city in Epirus, see Eurymenae (Epirus).

The site has been located at a place called Kokkino Nero.[7][8]

References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v. Ὲρυμναί.
  3. 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.
  4. Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 25.
  5. Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 39.25.
  6. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 31.2.20.
  7. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  8. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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