Coracae

Coracae or Korakai (Ancient Greek: Κορακαί)[1] was a town and polis (city-state) on the Pagasetic Gulf in Magnesia in ancient Thessaly.[2] It is mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as between Methone and Spalauthra.[3] Earlier writers tried to equate the town with Korope, but that has not been generally accepted.[4]

Coracae is noted in two inscriptions from Delphi of the fourth century BCE. It has been suggested that the town's location could have been on a hill called Nevestiki, near the current village of Lekonas, where remains of a fortification have been found, but that location has been suggested by others as the site of Methone.[2][5]

References
  1. Henri Estienne (1841). Thesaurus Graecae Linguae. Vol. 4. p. 1822. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  2. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 719–720. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  3. Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 65.
  4. Friedrich Stählin: Κορακαί.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. XI,2, Stuttgart 1922, col. 1370 f.
  5. Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 55.


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