Rhizus

Rhizus may also refer to Ριζαίον on the Black Sea, modern Rize.

Rhizus or Rhizous (Greek: Ριζούς (ο)) 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]^[7]

The site of Rhizus is at the modern village of Tarsanas (Ταρσανάς).^[8]^[9]^[10]

References edit

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.15, 9.5.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.9.16.
^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 24.
^ Ancient Greek Coins from Rhizus
^ Rogers E., The Copper Coinage of Thessaly, London, 1932, pp. 169, 170
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
^ Fossey, J., J. Morin (14 January 2021). "Places: 541085 (Rhizous)". Pleiades. Retrieved January 14, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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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