Ctimene (Thessaly)

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Map showing ancient Thessaly. Ctimene is shown in the lower left in Dolopia.

Ctimene or Ktimene (Ancient Greek: Κτιμένη), was a town and polis^[1] in ancient Thessaly, on the borders of Dolopia and Phthia, near the Lake Xynias.^[2][3] It is cited by Apollonius of Rhodes as the place of origin of one of the argonauts, Eurydamas, and relates it to the tribe of the Dolopes.^[4]

Livy relates that the retreat of Philip V of Macedon after the Battle of the Aous (198 BC) allowed the Aetolians to occupy much of Thessaly, and these latter devastated the town called Cymene and its neighbour, Angeia.^[5] William Smith treats the reference to Cymene as a probable corruption of Ctimene.^[2] Stephanus of Byzantium mentions a tradition that Ctimene had been given by Peleus to Phoenix.^[6] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World identify the site of Ctimene with the modern village of Rentina,^[7] which is tentative accepted by others.^[8]