Eurymenae or Eurymenai (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυμεναί or Εὐρυμέναι) or Erymnae or Erymnai (Ὲρυμναί) was a town and polis (city-state) in Magnesia, ancient Thessaly, situated upon the Aegean Sea coast at the foot of Mount Ossa, between Rhizus and Myrae. Pliny the Elder relates that crowns thrown into a fountain at Eurymenae became stones. It was destroyed by Lyciscus in the 4th century BCE.
The site has been located at a place called Kokkino Nero.
References
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. 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]. Vol. 39.25.
- Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 31.2.20.
- Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
39°50′10″N 22°47′31″E / 39.836°N 22.792°E / 39.836; 22.792
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