Rhizus

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][9]
References

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.
Strabo. Geographica. 9.5.15, 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.9.16.
Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 24.
Ancient Greek Coins from Rhizus
Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

Fossey, J., J. Morin. "Places: 541085 (Rhizous)". Pleiades. Retrieved January 14, 2021.

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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