Eurymenae

{{Short description|Town and polis (city-state) in Magnesia, ancient Thessaly}}

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Eurymenae or Eurymenai ({{langx|grc|Εὐρυμεναί or Εὐρυμέναι}}){{Cite Strabo|9.5.22}} or Erymnae or Erymnai (Ὲρυμναί){{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Ὲρυμναί}} was a town and polis (city-state){{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|page= 718}} in Magnesia, ancient Thessaly, situated upon the Aegean Sea coast at the foot of Mount Ossa, between Rhizus and Myrae.Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 25.{{Cite Livy|39.25}} Pliny the Elder relates that crowns thrown into a fountain at Eurymenae became stones.{{Cite Pliny|31.2.20}} It was destroyed by Lyciscus in the 4th century BCE.

The site has been located at a place called Kokkino Nero.{{Cite Barrington|55}}{{Cite DARE|29344}}

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Category:Cities in ancient Greece

Category:Ancient Magnesia

Category:Populated places in ancient Thessaly

Category:Former populated places in Greece

Category:Thessalian city-states

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