Anthela (Thessaly)
38°47′45″N 22°30′37″E / 38.795895°N 22.510319°E Anthela or Anthele (
Amphictyonic League celebrated its meetings and a temple of Amphictyon.[2] According to legend, the league was founded, in part, to protect the temple of Demeter at Anthela. Anthela is in the immediate vicinity of the pass of Thermopylae, celebrated for the temples of Amphictyon and of the Amphictyonic Demeter, containing seats for the members of the Amphicytonic council, who held here their autumnal meetings. At Anthela, Mount Oeta recedes a little from the sea, leaving a plain a little more than half a mile in breadth, but again contracts near Alpeni, the first town of the Locrians, where the space is again only sufficient for a single carriage.[3] Modern scholars identify its location with the modern village of Anthili in the municipality of Lamia.[4][5]
Nomenclature
Hesiod mentions this town under the name Anthe (Ἄνθη). Stephanus of Byzantium calls the place Anthene (Ἄνθήνη).[6]
References
- ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. VII, 176, VII, 200.
- ^
Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Thermopylae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ William Abbott Oldfather: Anthele.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Supplementband III, Stuttgart 1918, col. 119.
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