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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.
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).
OLIZON (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Total results on 13/8/2001: 7
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