Mondaea
39°58′04″N 21°56′02″E / 39.96769°N 21.9338°E Mondaea or Mondaia (Ancient Greek: Μονδαία) was a town and polis (city-state) of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly.[1] The city appears in an epigraph dated to 375-350 BCE in a list of Perrhaebian towns that offered a joint dedication to Apollo Pythios.[2] It also appears in a decree of proxenia of the year 178 BCE in an inscription at Gonnus.[3]
Its location has been found near modern Loutro Elassonos.[4][1][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 724. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ RegionsCentral Greece (IG VII-IX)Thessaly (IG IX,2), SEG 29:546, 14.
- ^ Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), tesis doctoral, pp.86, 163. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012). (in Spanish)
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
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