39°42′54″N 22°43′58″E / 39.715126°N 22.73288°E / 39.715126; 22.73288 Sycurium or Syk[o]yrion (Ancient Greek: Συκ[ο]ύριον) was a town of ancient Thessaly in the district of Pelasgiotis, at the foot of Mount Ossa.[1][2] Livy writes that during the Third Macedonian War, Perseus of Macedon encamped at Sycurium, between Mount Ossa and the lower Peneus; it overlooked the plains of Thessaly and was not far from Larissa.[2]

Its location is near the modern village of Neromylo Agias (or Neromyli).[3][4] Archaeology has revealed an acropolis with 5th century BCE fortifications and no defensive wall of the lower town.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 27.8.15.
  2. 1 2 Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.54.
  3. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  4. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  5. ↑ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 680. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

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


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