Anticyra (Thessaly)

Antikyra or Anticyra (Ancient Greek: Αντίκυρα, romanized: Antíkyra^[1] or Ἀντίκιρρα^[2] - Antíkirra or Ἀντίκυρρα^[3] - Antíkyrra or Ἀντίκυραι^[4] - Antíkyrae) was an ancient Greek city and polis (city-state) on the right bank of the Spercheios near its mouth on the Malian Gulf in district of Malis in Thessaly.^[5]^[6]^[7] To its south lay Mount Oeta. To distinguish it from the city of the same name in Phocis (now Boeotia), the Thessalian Antikyra was often distinguished as Malian Antikyra.^{[citation needed]} Both were famed for their black and white hellebore, a prized herb in ancient Greek medicine.^[8]

The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World tentatively identify the site of Anticyra at the modern village of Kostalexis (Κωσταλέξης) in the municipality of Lamia.^[9]

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^ This form was used by Roman authors.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. pp. 418, 434. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.15.4.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 709–710. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Chisholm 1911, p. 124.
^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Anticyra". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
^ Hahnemann 1812, p. 584.
^ 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.

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Anticyra" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 124
Hahnemann, Samuel (1812), Dissertatio Historico-Medica de Helleborismo Veterum ["Medical Historical Dissertation on the Helleborism of the Ancients"] (in Latin), Leipzig: reprinted 2004 in New Delhi as pp. 569–615 of Robert Ellis Dudgeon's Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, p. 584