Sycurium

39°42′54″N 22°43′58″E Sycurium or Syk[o]yrion (Ancient Greek: Συκ[ο]ύριον) was a town of ancient Thessaly in the district of Pelasgiotis, at the foot of Mount Ossa.[1][2] Livy writes that during the Third Macedonian War, Perseus of Macedon encamped at Sycurium, between Mount Ossa and the lower Peneus; it overlooked the plains of Thessaly and was not far from Larissa.[2]

Its location is near the modern village of Neromylo Agias (or Neromyli).[3][4] Archaeology has revealed an acropolis with 5th century BCE fortifications and no defensive wall of the lower town.[5]

References

Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 27.8.15.
Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.54.
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.
Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 680. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Sycurium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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[1] Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 27.8.15.

[Livy-2] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.54.

[3] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.

[4] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

[5] Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 680. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.