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

  1. 1 2 Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. 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]. Vol. 39.25.
  6. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 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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