Azorus

39°59′09″N 22°04′57″E / 39.98591°N 22.08256°E / 39.98591; 22.08256

Azorus or Azoros (Ancient Greek: Ἄζωρος or Ἀζώριον^[1]) was a town and polis (city-state)^[2] in Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. Azorus, with the two neighbouring towns of Pythium and Doliche, formed a Tripolis.^[3]

During the Roman–Seleucid War, the Tripolis was ravaged by an army of the Aetolian League in the year 191 BCE.^[4] During the Third Macedonian War the three towns surrendered to the army of Perseus of Macedon in the year 171 BCE,^[5] but that same year the Romans reconquered the three.^[6] In the year 169 BCE troops arrived from the Roman consul Quintus Marcius Philippus who camped between Azorus and Doliche.^[7]^[8]

The three cities minted a common coin with the inscription "ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΑΝ".^[2]

The site of Azorus is the palaiokastro (old fort) at the modern village of Azoros.^[9]^[10] According to the 5th-century grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria the town was named after the mythological Azorus, helmsman of the Argo.^[11]

References

↑ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.42.
1 2 Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 721-722. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
↑ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.53, 44.2.
↑ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 36.10.
↑ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.53.
↑ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.67.
↑ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 28.13.1.
↑ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 44.2.
↑ 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.
↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1849). "Azorus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1.

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[1] Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.42.

[Poleis-2] 1 2 Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 721-722. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

[3] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.53, 44.2.

[4] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 36.10.

[5] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.53.

[6] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.67.

[7] Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 28.13.1.

[8] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 44.2.

[9] 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.

[10] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

[11] Schmitz, Leonhard (1849). "Azorus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1.

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