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

1. Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 27.8.15.
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. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
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.

 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.