Pieria (Syria)

In Classical times Pieria was the southern area of the Amanus Mountains, a part of the province of Roman Syria. Cities included Seleucia Pieria and Pinara. Today it is part of Turkey.

Strabo XVI 2,4 and Nonnos 2, 94 - 112 are giving descriptions about the Pieria and the Pierides. In Nonnos the Pierides from the grove at Daphne are threatened by the lumberjack of Kalypso. Nonnos gave a very differend story about them as compared to Homer, Odyssey 5, 50.

The Pieria at the mouth of the river Orontes are the homelands of the daughters of Antioche, also called Antiope, as the Scholion on Euripides Phoinissai 5 and the Scholion on Sophokles Trachiniae 266 shows. In the same way are the arguments of Tzetzes, Chiliades 7, 19.

References

William Metcalf (23 February 2012). The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage. Oxford University Press. p. 478. ISBN 978-0-19-530574-6.

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