Phalanna

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Phalanna is shown to the upper centre, north of Larissa.

Phalanna (Ancient Greek: Φάλαννα), was a town and polis (city-state)^[1] of the Perrhaebi in ancient Thessaly, situated on the left bank of the Peneius, southwest of Gonnus. Strabo says that the Homeric Orthe became the acropolis of Phalanna;^[2] but in the lists of Pliny Orthe and Phalanna occur as two distinct towns.^[3] Phalanna was said to have derived its name from a daughter of Tyro.^[4] It was written Phalannus in Ephorus, and was called Hippia by Hecataeus of Miletus.^[4] Phalanna is mentioned by Livy as near Mylae and Gyrton during the Third Macedonian War between the Romans and Perseus of Macedon in 171 BCE.^[5]

The site of Phalanna is in the modern community of Damasi (Δαμάσι)^[6] near the village of Damasouli (Δαμασούλι).^[7]

References[]

^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 725–726. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Strabo. Geographica. IX, 5, 19. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.9.16.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 42.54, 65.
^ 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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