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ERETRIA (Ancient city) FARSALA
A town of Thessaly, in the district Phthiotis, near Pharsalus. It
was here that Quintius Flamininus halted at the end of the first day's march from
Pherae towards Scotussa, in B.C. 197. Leake places it at the village of Tjangli,
where he found the ruined walls of an ancient city. A long and narrow table-summit
formed the citadel, of which the lower courses of the walls still exist in their
whole circuit. The town walls are still better preserved, and are extant in some
parts on the eastern side to the height of 18 or 20 feet. Here also are two door-ways
still perfect.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
KYNOS KEFALES (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Kunos kephalai. The names of two ranges of hills, so called from their
supposed resemblance to the heads of dogs. 1. In Thessaly, a little to the south
of Scotussa, in whose territory they were situated. They are described by Polybius
(xviii. 5) as rugged, broken, and of considerable height; and are memorable as
the scene of two battles: one fought, in B.C. 364, between the Thebans and Alexander
of Pherae, in which Pelopidas was slain; and the other, of still greater celebrity,
fought in B.C. 197, in which the last Philip of Macedon was defeated by the Roman
consul Flamininus.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
SKOTOUSSA (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Skotoussa or Skotousa: Eth. Skotoussaios. An ancient town of Pelasgiotis
in Thessaly, lying between Pherae and Pharsalus, near the frontiers of Phthiotis.
Scotussa is not mentioned in Homer, but according to some accounts the oracle
of Dodona in Epeirus originally came from this place. (Strab. vii. p. 329.) In
B.C. 394 the Scotussaei joined the other Thessalians in opposing the march of
Agesilaus through their country. (Xen. Hell. iv. 3. 3) In B.C. 367 Scotussa was
treacherously seized by Alexander, tyrant of the neighbouring town of Pherae.
(Diod. xv. 75.) In. the territory of Scotussa were the hills called Cynoscephalae,
which are memorable as the scene of two battles, one fought in B.C. 364, between
the Thebans and Alexander of Pherae, in which Pelopidas was slain, and the other,
of still greater celebrity, fought in B.C. 197, in which the last Philip of Macedonia
was defeated by the Roman consul Flamininus. (Plut. Pelop. 32; Strab. ix. p. 441;
Polyb. xviii. 3, seq.; Liv. xxxiii. 6, seq.) In B.C. 191 Scotussa surrendered
to Antiochus, but was recovered shortly afterwards, along with Pharsalus and Pherae,
by the consul Acilius. (Liv. xxxvi. 9, 14.) The ruins of Scotussa are found at
Supli. The city was about two or three miles in circumference; but of the walls
only a few courses of masonry have been preserved. The acropolis stood at the
south-western end of the site, below which, on the east and north, the ground
is covered with foundations of buildings, heaps of stones, and fragments of tiles
and pottery. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 454, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
THETIDO (Settlement) FARSALA
Thetidium (Thetidion, Strab. ix. p. 431; Polyb. xviii. 3, 4; Thetideion,
Eurip. Androm. 20; Thestideion, Steph. B. s. v.: Eth. Thetideus), a place in Thessaly,
close to Pharsalus, where Flamininus encamped at the end of the second march from
Pherae towards Scotussa, before the battle of Cynoscephalae. It derived its name
from Thetis, the mother of Achilles, the national hero of the Achaean Phthiotae.
Leake places it at or near Magula, on the opposite bank of the Enipeus. (Northern
Greece, vol. iv. pp. 472, 473.)
KYNOS KEFALES (Ancient city) THESSALIA
(Kunos Kephalai, i. e. "Dogs' Heads)." Two hills near Scotussa in Thessaly,
where the Thebans defeated the Pheraeans (B.C. 364) and where Flamininus gained
his celebrated victory over Philip of Macedonia, B.C. 197.
SKOTOUSSA (Ancient city) THESSALIA
A very ancient town of Thessaly, in the district Pelasgiotis, near the source of the Onchestus.
KYNOS KEFALES (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Total results on 24/4/2001: 12 for Cynoscephalae, 4 for Kynoskephalai.
A city in the mountains of Pelasgiotis W of Volo. It was already important in the 5th c. as the seat of the tree oracle of Zeus Phegonaios; the sanctuary was considered by the Thessalians to be the Homeric Dodona, forerunner of the oracle in Epeiros. The wealth of the town in the Classical period was based on grain. A number of battles were fought at Skotoussa and at Kynoskephali, which lay in its territory to the N. A second period of importance followed on the fortification of the site by Philip V of Macedon, but it was deserted when Pausanias saw it. Within the city territory, Plutarch records a polyandrion built by Philip V, a tumulus over the mass grave of the Macedonians raised by Antiochos in 191 B.C., and a solitary hill known traditionally as the grave of the Amazons. Traces of walls remain around the acropolis, 1 km W of Soupli, and at intervals around a much larger outer circuit. The rubble-filled walls of local stone are strengthened by numerous towers and had gates on the E and W. Leake saw some stretches of good ashlar masonry. A theater lay in a natural hollow just inside the wall on the SW. The site of the oracle, not at the city itself has not been identified.
M. H. Mc Allister, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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