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AFETES (Ancient port) SOUTH PELION
Aphetae (Aphetai or Aphetai: Eth. Aphetaios), a port of Magnesia in
Thessaly, said to have derived its name from the departure of the Argonauts from
it. The Persian fleet occupied the bay of Aphetae, previous to the battle of Artemisium,
from which Aphetae was distant 80 stadia, according to Herodotus. Leake identifies
Aphetae with the modern harbour of Trikeri, or with that between the island of
Palea Trikeri and the main. (Herod. vii. 193, 196, viii. 4; Strab. p. 436; Apoll.
Rhod. i. 591; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 397, Demi of
Attica, p. 243, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MITHONI (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
A town of Thessaly, mentioned by Homer (Il. ii. 716) as belonging to Philoctetes.
Later writers describe it as a town of Magnesia, but we have no further particulars
respecting it.
OLIZON (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Eth. Olizonios. An ancient town of Magnesia in Thessaly, mentioned
by Homer, who gives it the epithet of rugged. (Hom. Il. ii. 717.) It possessed
a harbour (Scylax, p. 25); and as it was opposite Artemisium in Euboea (Plut.
Them. 8), it is placed by Leake on the isthmus connecting the peninsula of Trikhiri
with the rest of Magnesia.
SIPIAS (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
A promontory of Magnesia, opposite the island of Sciathos, and forming the SE.
extremity of Thessaly. It is now called C. St. George. It is celebrated in mythology
as the spot where Peleus laid in wait for Thetis, and from whence he carried off
the goddess (Eurip. Androm. 1266) and in history as the scene of the great shipwreck
of the fleet of Xerxes.
SPALAFTHRA (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Spalauthra, Spalethre, Spalathron, Eth. Spalathraios. A town of Magnesia, in Thessaly,
upon the Pagasaean gulf. It is conjectured that this town is meant by Lycophron
(899), who describes Prothous, the leader of the Magnetes in the Iliad, as ho
ek Palauthron (Spalauthron).
TRIKERI PALEO (Island) SOUTH PELION
Cicynethus (Kikunethos: trikeri), a small island off the coast of
Thessaly in the Pagasaean gulf. (Scylax, p. 29; Artemiod. ap. Strab. ix. p. 436;
Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 396.)
SIPIAS (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Now St. George. A promontory in the southeast of Thessaly, in the district Magnesia, on which a great part of the fleet of Xerxes was wrecked.
ARGALASTI (Municipal unit) SOUTH PELION
MILIES (Municipal unit) SOUTH PELION
AGIOS GEORGIOS NILIAS (Village) SOUTH PELION
MILIES (Small town) SOUTH PELION
PLATANIAS (Port) SOUTH PELION
AFETES (Ancient port) SOUTH PELION
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OLIZON (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
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EOLI (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
It has been suggested that the ancient city of Eoli was situated in the Katigiorgis location on the Sepias cape or in the valley of Boufa, near the sanctuary of Apollo Koropaios.
KOROPI (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
SIPIAS (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
KOROPI (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
City and site of the oracular Shrine of Apollo Koropaios. The god
was one of the Magnesian triad; the sanctuary was in existence from at least archaic
times. The city was incorporated into Demetrias on its foundation in 293 B.C.,
but the oracle continued to function through Roman times. The site is located
on the right bank of the (modern) river Bufa, ca. 20 km S of Volo on the shore
road which runs along the inner coast of Magnesia. A small modern settlement is
presently known as Korope. The site was identified in 1882 by the discovery of
a decree of Demetrias relating to the management of the shrine. In 1906 and 1907
the area of the sanctuary was discovered and partially excavated. This is on level
ground above the modern road and just below a hill called Petralona. The excavation
has now entirely filled in. Parts of the base of the NW corner of the peribolos
(?) wall constructed of rough stones was found, and joining the W wall another
wall (E end not found) parallel to the N peribolos wall and 8 m away, perhaps
belonging to a stoa. Numerous terracotta figurines and black-glazed and black-figure
sherds of the 7th-6th c. B.C. were found, and a number of pieces of the handsomely
painted archaic terracotta revetment of the temple (?) and part of the wing of
a lateral acroterion, a gryphon or sphinx. Some terracottas and fragments of terracotta
revetment were also found. The finds from the excavation (unpublished) are in
the Volo Archaeological Museum.
On a peak of the hill Petralona (175 m) above and ca. one km to the
E of the sanctuary are traces of habitation in the form of roof tiles, sherds,
etc. To the SE of the peak, at the edge of a flattish area is a semicircular retaining
wall about one to two m high, built of polygonal masonry. Between the peak of
the hill and the sanctuary are two ancient tombs. There is no sign of acropolis
or city defense walls. The remains on the hill date from the archaic through the
early Hellenistic periods. By the shore, SW of the sanctuary are remains of a
Roman tomb, and a floor probably of the Roman or Christian period. Late Hellenistic
and Roman sherds are commonly found in this area, indicating that the settlement
of Korope moved from the hill to the shore.
T. S. Mackay, 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.
SIPIAS (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Modern name of a promontory and town about half way down the E coast
of the Magnesian peninsula, where the main mass of Pelion juts into the sea. The
cape is very likely ancient Cape Sepias, where part of Xerxes' fleet was wrecked
in a storm (Hdt. 7.188; Strab. 9.443) although the identification is uncertain
and disputed; Magnesia's SE cape, Haghios Georgi, now Sepias, and the whole coast
between the two capes are also suggested. There was also an ancient town of Sepias,
whose population was later incorporated in Demetrias (Strab. 9.443). The tombstone
of a man from Sepias was discovered near modern Keramidhi.
In the area of Pouri are some ancient landmarks and sites, none securely
identified. Immediately N of the cape itself is a shallow bay (6 km wide), from
Asprovrachos N to Kavos Koutsovou. The shore of the bay is formed of a steep cliff
with a series of caves at sea level, almost certainly the ovens (ipnoi) of Herodotos
(7.188), where some of the Persian ships were wrecked. The ships had been moored
on and off a beach between Kasthanaie and Sepias; this was possibly the beach
now called Koulouri to the E of modern Keramidhi and N of the ovens. Kasthanaie
has frequently been identified as an ancient site NE of modern Keramidhi, on a
hill which slopes to the sea. Below the hill is a shallow beach at the mouth of
modern Kakorema, which may have served as a harbor. The hill is abrupt on the
N and S sides, easier to the W. The acropolis was on a low hill to the W. In the
19th c. the walls were impressive. They are of good Hellenic (4th c.?) masonry.
The wall circuit included the acropolis, which was cut off from the lower city
by a cross wall with round towers at each end. The walls were traceable down to
the point above the sea and were furnished with towers. Apparently no wall was
built on the steep slope at N and E. The circuit was about half a mile. No remains
of buildings are reported. The hill is presently heavily overgrown, but some parts
of the wall, preserved several courses high, can be seen. On a hill near Keramidhi
is an ancient necropolis.
Other remains in the area have been reported from Tamuchari (modern
Damouchari), a harbor about 11 km S of Pouri, and the site has been suggested
for Kasthanaie. These ruins seem not to have been described by anyone. Hellenic
and Byzantine ruins at a place called Kalyvi tou Panagiotou, near the modern town
of Pouri have been reported and these have been suggested for the ancient Sepias
town, but again, are nowhere described.
T. S. Mackay, 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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