Kyrrhos (Macedonia)

Kyrrhos ( Greek  Κύρρος , Latin Cyrrhus ) is an ancient city in Macedonia . It is located near today's Aravissos between Pella and Edessa .

Kyrrhos existed as early as the 5th century BC. According to an order from his will , Alexander the Great wanted a huge temple of Artemis to be built here after Diodorus . Pliny mentions the city. In the 5th century AD the city was conquered by the Goths ; Theodemir , the father of Theodoric the Great , died there. The city ​​was fortified under Justinian I.

The astronomer and architect Andronikos of Kyrrhos came from there.

literature

• R. Malcolm Errington : Kyrrhos 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , Sp. 1019.

Remarks

1. ↑ Thucydides 2, 100, 1.
2. ↑ Diodorus 18, 4, 5.
3. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 4, 34.
4. ↑ Iordanes , Getica 287-288.
5. ^ Prokop , De aedificiis 4, 4.