Anticyra (Thessaly)
38°51′10″N 22°25′50″E / 38.852784°N 22.430528°E
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Antikyra or Anticyra (Ancient Greek: Αντίκυρα, romanized: Antíkyra[1] or Ἀντίκιρρα[2] - Antíkirra or Ἀντίκυρρα[3] - Antíkyrra or Ἀντίκυραι[4] - Antíkyrae) was an ancient Greek city and polis (city-state) on the right bank of the Spercheios near its mouth on the Malian Gulf in district of Malis in Thessaly.[5][6][7] To its south lay Mount Oeta. To distinguish it from the city of the same name in Phocis (now Boeotia), the Thessalian Antikyra was often distinguished as Malian Antikyra.[citation needed] Both were famed for their black and white hellebore, a prized herb in ancient Greek medicine.[8]
The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World tentatively identify the site of Anticyra at the modern village of Kostalexis (Κωσταλέξης) in the municipality of Lamia.[9]
See also
[edit]- Phocian Antikyra, also the modern Antikyra
- Locrian Antikyra, a phantom city invented by Titus Livius
Notes
[edit]- ^ This form was used by Roman authors.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. pp. 418, 434. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.15.4.
- ^ 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. pp. 709–710. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 124.
- ^
Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Anticyra". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ Hahnemann 1812, p. 584.
- ^ 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.
References
[edit]- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 124
- Hahnemann, Samuel (1812), Dissertatio Historico-Medica de Helleborismo Veterum ["Medical Historical Dissertation on the Helleborism of the Ancients"] (in Latin), Leipzig: reprinted 2004 in New Delhi as pp. 569–615 of Robert Ellis Dudgeon's Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, p. 584
Further reading
[edit]- Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (9th ed.), 1878, p. 127 ,