Rhizus

Rhizus may also refer to Ριζαίον on the Black Sea, modern Rize.
Map showing ancient Thessaly. Rhizus is shown to the upper right on the sea.

Rhizus or Rhizous (Greek: Ριζούς (ο)) was a town and polis of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly, whose inhabitants were transported by Demetrios Poliorketes to Demetrias upon the foundation of the latter city. According to Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, Rhizus was outside the Pagasaean Gulf, on the exterior (Aegean) shore. In Strabo's time, it was a village dependent on Demetrias. Coins minted by Rhizus have been found, dated in the 4th century BCE.

The site of Rhizus is at the modern village of Tarsanas (Ταρσανάς).

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. p. 721. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. 1 2 Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.15, 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  4. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 4.9.16.
  5. ↑ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 24.
  6. ↑ Ancient Greek Coins from Rhizus
  7. ↑ Rogers E., The Copper Coinage of Thessaly, London, 1932, pp. 169, 170
  8. ↑ Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  9. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  10. ↑ Fossey, J., J. Morin (14 January 2021). "Places: 541085 (Rhizous)". Pleiades. Retrieved January 14, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Rhizus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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