Rhizus

{{Short description|Ancient Town}} :''Rhizus may also refer to Ριζαίον on the Black Sea, modern Rize.'' thumb|350px|Map showing ancient Thessaly. Rhizus is shown to the upper right on the sea. '''Rhizus''' or '''Rhizous''' ({{langx|el|Ριζούς (ο)}}) was a town and polis<ref name=Poleis>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|url= https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans |url-access= limited |year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|page= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n737 721]}}</ref> of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly, whose inhabitants were transported by Demetrios Poliorketes to Demetrias upon the foundation of the latter city.<ref name=Strabo>{{Cite Strabo|9.5.15, 9.5.22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v''}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Pliny|4.9.16}}</ref> According to Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, Rhizus was outside the Pagasaean Gulf, on the exterior (Aegean) shore.<ref>''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'', p. 24.</ref> In Strabo's time, it was a village dependent on Demetrias.<ref name=Strabo/> Coins minted by Rhizus have been found, dated in the 4th century BCE.<ref>[http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/thessaly/rhizous/i.html Ancient Greek Coins from Rhizus]</ref><ref>[https://www.forumancientcoins.com/articles/Rogers_Thessaly.pdf Rogers E., The Copper Coinage of Thessaly, London, 1932, pp. 169, 170]</ref>

The site of Rhizus is at the modern village of Tarsanas (Ταρσανάς).<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|29456}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/541085 |title=Places: 541085 (Rhizous) |author=Fossey, J., J. Morin |date=14 January 2021 |accessdate=January 14, 2021  |publisher=Pleiades}} </ref>

==References== {{reflist}} {{DGRG|title=Rhizus}}

==External links== * [http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/thessaly.html Ancient Thessaly] * [http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/thessaly/rhizous/ Ancient Greek Coins] * [http://www.forumancientcoins.com/NumisWiki/view.asp?key=thessaly NumisWiki] * [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/9E*.html The Geography of Strabo] * [http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=15554 Classical Numismatic Group]

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