• Source: Anticyra (Thessaly)

Antikyra or Anticyra (Ancient Greek: Αντίκυρα, romanized: Antíkyra or Ἀντίκιρρα - Antíkirra or Ἀντίκυρρα - Antíkyrra or Ἀντίκυραι - Antíkyrae) was an ancient Greek city and polis (city-state) on the right bank of the Spercheios near its mouth on the Malian Gulf in district of Malis in Thessaly. To its south lay Mount Oeta. To distinguish it from the city of the same name in Phocis (now Boeotia), the Thessalian Antikyra was often distinguished as Malian Antikyra. Both were famed for their black and white hellebore, a prized herb in ancient Greek medicine.
The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World tentatively identify the site of Anticyra at the modern village of Kostalexis (Κωσταλέξης) in the municipality of Lamia.




See also


Phocian Antikyra, also the modern Antikyra
Locrian Antikyra, a phantom city invented by Titus Livius




Notes






References


Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Anticyra" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 124
Hahnemann, Samuel (1812), Dissertatio Historico-Medica de Helleborismo Veterum ["Medical Historical Dissertation on the Helleborism of the Ancients"] (in Latin), Leipzig: reprinted 2004 in New Delhi as pp. 569–615 of Robert Ellis Dudgeon's Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, p. 584




Further reading


"Anticyra" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (9th ed.), 1878, p. 127

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