Thebes (Thessaly)
The Thessalian or Phthiotic Thebes ( ancient Greek Θῆβαι Φθιώτιδες Thēbai Phthiōtides ) was the central city on the Pagasean Gulf in Thessaly. It was inhabited in ancient times by the so-called Achaioi phthiotioi . Today it is a ruin north of the village of Mikrothives ('Little Thebes') and has not yet been identified with certainty, but may be identical to Phylake .
Since Boeotian Thebes is said to have been settled by Thessalian Achaeans through immigration, it is likely that there was a connection here. The city only gained importance after the Persian Wars . 217 BC Thebes in Thessaly was conquered by Philip V and was temporarily called Philippopolis.
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literature
- Theodora Stillwell MacKay: Phthiotic Thebes Achaia Phthiotis, Greece . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Web links
- Acropolis fortification of the phthiotic Thebes (Thebai Phthiotides). Photographs in the Arachne image database.
Remarks
- ^ Pierer's Universal-Lexikon , Volume 17. Altenburg 1863, p. 458 .
Coordinates: 39 ° 16 ′ 16 ″ N , 22 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E