Phylake
Coordinates: 39 ° 16 ′ 13 ″ N , 22 ° 46 ′ 5 ″ E
Phylake ( ancient Greek Φυλάκη Phylákē , "the waiting room ") was an ancient Greek city on the border of the historical areas Magnesia and Phthiotis in Thessaly near the Aegean Sea .
In the vicinity of today's village Phylaki (also ΚιτΚκι, Kitíki , called), west of the Gulf of Volos in Thessaly , there is a historically significant elevation on a pass to the north of it to the Enipeus Valley , on the uppermost surface of which there is a wall of stone slabs . The hill itself is bordered on the lowest level by a Cyclopean wall . These ancient building remains suggest a long-lived settlement in antiquity and prehistoric times and are therefore identified with the ancient phylake. In the fourth century BC The city is united with two neighboring settlements, the Thessalian, Achaean or phthiotic Thebes (near today's village Μικροθήβες Μαγνησίας, Mikrothíves Magnisías ) and Pyrasos (near today's Nea Anchialos ).
The name of the city is connected to the mythical figure Protesilaos , who went to the Trojan War as a former suitor of Helen and was the first to be killed there, as a prophecy prophesied. His image is recorded on coins of the Thessalian Thebes, into which the city of Phylake had been absorbed since the fourth century BC.
There is, however, an alternative location for phylakes, which is supposed to be not about 20 km east, but 5 km north of Thebes. There are ruins near Aerino (Αερινό) in the municipality of Rigas Fereos on the Revma Dervisi .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ TS Mac Kay: Phthiotic Thebes, Achaia, Phthiotis, Greece . In: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites . Princeton University Press. 1976.