{{coord|39.1408|N|23.2743|E|display=title|format=dms|source:http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/29305.html}} '''Aphetae''' or '''Aphetai''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀφεταί}}<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> or Ἀφέται<ref>{{Cite Strabo|p. 436}}</ref>) was a port of Magnesia in Ancient Thessaly, said to have derived its name from the departure of the Argonauts from it.<ref name="Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography-Aphetae">[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D11%3Aentry%3Daphetae-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), William Smith, LLD, Ed., Aphetae]</ref>
The Persian fleet occupied the bay of Aphetae, previous to the Battle of Artemisium in 480 BCE, from which Aphetae was distant 80 stadia, according to Herodotus.<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|7.193, 196, 8.4}}</ref>
William Martin Leake identifies Aphetae with the modern harbor of Trikeri, or alternatively with the harbor between the island of Paleo Trikeri and the mainland.<ref name="Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography-Aphetae"/> Modern scholars tentatively place the site of Aphetae in a place called Kato Yeoryios near the modern village of Platania (Πλατανιάς).<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|29305}}</ref> The modern village of Afetes, at some distance to Kato Yeoryios, was renamed to reflect this ancient port.
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