Pheca

Coordinates: 39°31′25″N 21°37′47″E / 39.52371°N 21.629739°E / 39.52371; 21.629739

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Phaeca is shown to the centre left near Gomphi.

Pheca or Phaika or Phaeca (Ancient Greek: Φαίκα) or Phecadum was a fortress and town lying between the pass of Portes and Gomphi in ancient Thessaly.^[1] In the war against Philip V of Macedon, Amynander of Athamania, king of the Athamanes, in co-operation with the Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus, having descended from the pass of Portes, first took Pheca and then Gomphi itself, 198 BCE.^[2]

The site of Pheca is at modern .^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 31.41, 32.14.
^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 32.14.
^ 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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[1] Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 31.41, 32.14.

[2] Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 32.14.

[3] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.

[4] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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