Eurymenae

Coordinates: 39°50′10″N 22°47′31″E / 39.836°N 22.792°E / 39.836; 22.792 Eurymenae or Eurymenai (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυμεναί or Εὐρυμέναι)^[1] or Erymnae or Erymnai (Ὲρυμναί)^[2] was a town and polis (city-state)^[3] in Magnesia, ancient Thessaly, situated upon the Aegean Sea coast at the foot of Mount Ossa, between Rhizus and Myrae.^[1]^[4]^[5] Pliny the Elder relates that crowns thrown into a fountain at Eurymenae became stones.^[6] It was destroyed by Lyciscus in the 4th century BCE.

The site has been located at a place called Kokkino Nero.^[7]^[8]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Strabo. Geographica. 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v. Ὲρυμναί.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 718. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 25.
^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 39.25.
^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 31.2.20.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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