39°35′25″N 22°55′13″E / 39.5904°N 22.9204°E / 39.5904; 22.9204

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Casthanaea is shown on the coast of Magnesia.

Casthanaea or Casthanea or Kasthanaia or Kasthaneia (Greek: Κασθαναία)[1] or Castanea or Kastanaia (Κασταναία)[2] was a town and polis (city-state)[3] of Ancient Magnesia, at the foot of Mount Pelium, with a temple of Aphrodite Casthanitis. It is mentioned by Herodotus in his account of the terrible storm which the fleet of Xerxes I experienced off this part of the coast.[4] and by Pliny.[5] It was from this town that the chestnut tree, which still abounds on the eastern side of Mt. Pelium, derived its name in Greek and the modern languages of Europe.[6] Its location is at the modern village of Keramidi.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. Strab. ix. pp.438, 443. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  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. 719. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  4. ↑ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 7.183, 184, 188.
  5. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.16.9.
  6. ↑ "Essai monographique sur le châtaignier", Édouard Lamy, 1860 p.4.
  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.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Casthanaea". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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