Pagasae

Coordinates: 39°18′47″N 22°55′51″E / 39.312923°N 22.930713°E / 39.312923; 22.930713
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Map showing ancient Thessaly. Pagasae is shown to the centre right at the head of its gulf.

Pagasae or Pagases (

Latin: Pagasaeus Sinus).[4][5][2][6]

Pagasae is celebrated in mythology as the port where

As of the nineteenth century, the ruins of the ancient city were to be seen near Volos, which has given the modern name to the bay. The acropolis occupied the summit of some rocky heights above Cape Angkístri, and at the foot of the rocks are many copious sources of water, of which Strabo speaks. But as these springs are rather saline to the taste, the city was provided in the Roman times with water from a distance by means of an aqueduct, the ruined piers of which are still a conspicuous object.[11] The accepted site is in the modern village of Nees Pagasees in the municipality of Volos;[12] however, the most recent excavations seem to indicate that Pagasae may be the ruins at nearby Soros, also in the municipality of Volos.[3][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.8.15.
  2. ^ a b Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 2.3.6.
  3. ^ .
  4. Scylax
    , p. 24.
  5. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.438. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  6. ^ David Sacks, Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, rev. ed. by Lisa R. Brody (Facts on File, 2005), pp. 140, 347.
  7. ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.436. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  8. ^ James J. Clauss, The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica (University of California Press, 1993), p. 88ff.
  9. ^ Dem. Ol. i. pp. 11, 13; Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 16.31.
  10. ^ James R. Ashley, The Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359–323 B.C. (MacFarland, 1998), p. 120, 124–125, 132–133, 361.
  11. ^ William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 368, et seq.
  12. .
  13. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pagasae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

39°18′47″N 22°55′51″E / 39.312923°N 22.930713°E / 39.312923; 22.930713