Phalanna

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]

For the genus of moth, see Euchromia.

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

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

References
  1. 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.
  2. Strabo. Geographica. IX, 5, 19. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.9.16.
  4. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  5. Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 42.54, 65.
  6. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  7. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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