Olizon

{{Short description|Greek city}} {{coord|39.13534|N|23.21711|E|format=dms|display=title|source:http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/29414.html}} thumb|215px|Map showing ancient Thessaly. Olizon is shown to the lower right opposite Euboea (shown in pink). '''Olizon''' ({{langx|grc|Ὀλιζών}}) was an ancient Greek town and polis (city-state) of Magnesia located in the region of Thessaly.<ref name=Poleis>{{harvnb|Hansen|Nielsen|2004|loc="Thessaly and Adjacent Regions", p. 721}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite Strabo|ix. p.436}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Pliny|4.9.16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> Olizon is mentioned by Homer, who gives it the epithet of "rugged"; and in the Catalogue of Ships in the ''Iliad'', Olizon formed part of the territories of Philoctetes.<ref>{{Cite Iliad|2.717}}</ref>

It is also mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as a city in Magnesia, together with Iolcus, Spalauthra, Methone and Coracae.<ref>''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'', 65.</ref> In Strabo's time, it formed part of the dependent territories of Demetrias on a section of the coast where Thaumacia and Meliboea also stood.<ref>{{Cite Strabo|9.5.15-16.}}</ref> Plutarch wrote that it was located opposite Artemisium in Euboea.<ref>Plut. ''Them.'' 8.</ref>

'''Olizon''' is located at the ''Palaiokastro'' (old fort) at Agios Andreas.<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|29414}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist|2}}

==Sources== *{{cite book|last1=Hansen|first1=Mogens Herman|last2=Nielsen|first2=Thomas Heine|title=An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis|year=2004|location=Oxford and New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0198140991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22jupg3FqdYC}} *{{DGRG|title=Olizon}}

Category:Ancient Magnesia Category:Populated places in ancient Thessaly Category:Places in the Iliad Category:Cities in ancient Greece Category:Thessalian city-states Category:Former populated places in Greece