Rhizus

Rhizus may also refer to Ριζαίον on the Black Sea, modern Rize.
Map showing ancient Thessaly. Rhizus is shown to the upper right on the sea.

Coordinates: 39°46′41″N 22°49′29″E / 39.77812°N 22.82485°E / 39.77812; 22.82485 Rhizus or Rhizous (Greek: Ριζούς) was a town and polis[1] of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly, whose inhabitants were transported by Demetrios Poliorketes to Demetrias upon the foundation of the latter city.[2][3][4] We learn from Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax that Rhizus was outside the Pagasaean Gulf upon the exterior (Aegean) shore.[5] In Strabo's time, it was a village dependent on Demetrias.[2] Coins minted by Rhizus have been found, dated in the 4th century BCE.[6]

The site of Rhizus is at the modern village of Tarsanas (Ταρσανάς).[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 721. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. 1 2 Strabo. Geographica. 9.5.15, 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  4. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.9.16.
  5. ↑ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 24.
  6. ↑ Ancient Greek Coins from Rhizus
  7. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  8. ↑ 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). "Rhizus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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