Summary
38°56′55″N 22°30′23″E / 38.94874°N 22.50641°E Narthacium or Narthakion (Ancient Greek: Ναρθάκιον or Ναρθάκἶον) was a city of Phthiotis in ancient Thessaly, in the neighbourhood of which Agesilaus, on his return from Asia in 394 BCE, gained a victory over the Thessalian cavalry. The Thessalians, after their defeat, took refuge on Mount Narthacium, between which and a place named Pras, Agesilaus set up a trophy. On the following day he crossed the mountains of the Achaean Phthiotis.[1][2][3][4] Narthacium is mentioned by Ptolemy.[5]
An inscription referring to Narthacium has been preserved, documented as IG (9) 2.89, dated to the year 140 BCE regarding a senatus consultum on a territorial dispute between Narthacium and Melitaea.[6]
The site of Narthacium is at a place called Limogardi (Λιμογάρδι), in the municipality of Lamia.[7][8]
References edit
- ^ Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 4.3.3-9.
- ^ Xenophon, Ages. 2.3-5.
- ^ Plutarch, Apophth. p. 211
- ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 14.82.
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.46.
- ^ 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, p.240. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012).
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Narthacium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.