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Larisa (Troad)

January 01, 1970

Larissa (Ancient Greek: Λάρισσα, romanized: Larissa), was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. Its surrounding territory was known in Greek as the Λαρισσαῖα (Larissaia).[1] It has been located on a small rise by the coast now known as Limantepe, about 3.5 km from the village of Kösedere to the north-east and 3 km from the village of Babadere to the east, in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province, Turkey.[2] As with other Greek toponyms containing the consonantal string -ss-, spellings that drop one 's' exist alongside those that retain both in the ancient literary sources. Larisa in the Troad should not be confused with 'Aeolian' Larissa, near Menemen, or with 'Ionian' Larissa in İzmir province.[3]

Larisa
Λάρισα
Shown within Turkey
LocationBabadere, Çanakkale Province, Turkey
RegionTroad
Coordinates39°36′55″N 26°8′43″E / 39.61528°N 26.14528°E / 39.61528; 26.14528
TypeSettlement
History
PeriodsEarly Bronze Age to Hellenistic period

History edit

Bronze Age edit

Ceramic finds of Early Bronze Age III (c. 2700 - c. 2200 BC) and Troy VI material suggest that Limantepe had been occupied since the mid-3rd millennium BC by a pre-Greek population.[4] The Augustan geographer Strabo considered the toponym 'Laris(s)a' to be Pelasgian, and it was understood by lexicographers in Antiquity to mean 'citadel'.[5] The specific attribution to the little understood Pelasgians should be treated with caution, as scholars now generally consider this a catch-all term used by Greeks to refer to the non-Greek peoples whom they knew had previously inhabited Asia Minor, but understood little about.[6] Nevertheless, modern philologists do consider the consonantal string -ss- to be pre-Greek, and possibly Luwian, in origin, and so it is quite possible that the name Larisa represents a pre-Greek survival.[7]

Larisa in Troad was likely the Larisa mentioned by Homer in his catalogue of Troy's allies in the Iliad.[8] Some early historians located it in Thrace, but Geoffrey Kirk has shown that they were confused by a mistake of Strabo, and that the site of Larisa in Troad fits well with the other mentions of the Pelasgians in the Iliad.[9][10][11]

Archaic and Classical edit

We hear nothing about Larisa in the Archaic Greek period from our literary sources, but ceramic finds at Limantepe indicate Greek occupation from the late 8th century BC.[12] In 427 BC Larisa was one of the so-called Actaean cities that Athens took from Mytilene following the end of the Mytilenean revolt, and it appears in the Athenian tribute assessments in 425/424 BC and 422/421 BC.[13] In 425/424 BC it had an assessment of 3 talents, a relatively high figure compared to other cities in the Troad. As a former member of the Mytilenaean peraia, it is thought that the Greeks who originally settled Larisa were from Mytilene, as was the case with the other Actaean cities.[14] A corrupt passage of Strabo used to be understood as instead supporting the idea that Larisa and its neighbour to the north Kolonai belonged to the peraia of the island of Tenedos, but scholars now prefer to restore Lesbos in the lacuna.[15] Larisa was forcibly re-incorporated into the Persian Empire in 399 BC before being freed once more by the Spartan Dercylidas in 398 BC.[16]

The relatively high Athenian tribute assessment for Larisa of 3 talents suggests that during the Classical period it was a comparatively wealthy settlement. It lay in a large fertile plain between the Acheloos river to the north and the Satnioeis river to the south that would have provided good farmland.[17] In addition, it had access in Classical Antiquity to an excellent harbour.[18] Its border to the south with Hamaxitus was marked by the Satnioeis river (modern Tuzla Çay), and for a period in the late 4th century BC it may have controlled the lucrative salt pans at Tragasai, which, though north of the Satnioeis, were in general controlled by Hamaxitus.[19] Beyond the Acheloos lay the territory of Kolonai, which appears to have been in some sort of semi-dependent relationship with Larisa, further increasing the city's revenues.[20]

Hellenistic and Roman edit

The history of Larisa in the Hellenistic period is extremely obscure. It has generally been thought that Larisa lost its political independence in a synoecism with Antigoneia Troas c. 310 BC.[21] However, the eminent French epigrapher Louis Robert consistently challenged this view, arguing that Larisa and Hamaxitus remained independent until after the Treaty of Apamea. Moreover, he proposed on the basis of a legend on a coin found at Limantepe (the site of Larisa) that for a period in the 3rd century BC Larisa was refounded by the Ptolemaic dynasty as Ptolemais.[22] This theory has by no means won universal favour, and at present there is too little archaeological or numismatic evidence to decide the matter.[23] Whether or not Larisa was still a polis at the time, the Delphic thearodokoi stopped off there c. 230 - 220 BC, indicating that there was still a settlement of some description on the site at this point.[24] However, by the beginning of the Roman period Larisa appears to have been abandoned altogether.[25]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Strabo 13.1.48.
  2. ^ Robert (1951) 36-68, Cook (1973) 218-21, Akalın (1991) 65.
  3. ^ The number of places named Laris(s)a was remarked upon in Classical Antiquity: Strabo 9.5.19, 13.2.3, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.123, Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Λάρισαι πόλεις ι´. RE XII (1925) s.v. Λάρισα coll. 840-73 lists 15 places known as Laris(s)a.
  4. ^ Cook (1973) 219, Akalın (1991) 65-6.
  5. ^ Strabo 9.5.19, 13.3.2; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Λάρισσα, Scholion on Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.40.
  6. ^ See most recently Finkelberg (2005). The Larisa referred to by Homer as being inhabited by 'the tribe of the Pelasgians' (Iliad 2.840-1, cf. 17.301) probably refers to the 'Ionian' or 'Aeolian' Larisa: Robert (1951) 36 nn. 2-4.
  7. ^ Finkelberg (2005) 42-64.
  8. ^ Homer, Iliad, ii. 840.
  9. ^ Strabo, 13.3.2.
  10. ^ Murray, A Classical Manual, p. 135, who placed Larisa in Thrace.
  11. ^ Kirk, Commentary, vol. I, p. 257.
  12. ^ Cook (1973) 218-19.
  13. ^ IG I3 71.III.130, IG I3 77.IV.19.
  14. ^ Carusi (2003) 35-6.
  15. ^ Strabo 13.1.47: Λάρισα καὶ Κολωναὶ τῆς ... 10 ... δίας οὖσαι πρότερον ('Larisa and Kolonai, which previously belonged to the ... 10 ... DIAS'). In his 1833 edition, Groskurd saw that the 'd' must be an 'a' (Δ for Α, a common palaeographical mistake), and so restored Τενεδίων περαίας (the Tenedian Peraia). However, this is 11 letters not 10, and so Cook's restoration of Λεσβίων περαίας ('the peraia of the Lesbians'), which also agrees with the epigraphic evidence, is now universally accepted: Cook (1973) 197-8, Carusi (2003) 36, Radt (2008) 497.
  16. ^ Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.16, Diodorus Siculus 14.38.3.
  17. ^ Homer gives the epithet ἐριβῶλαξ (eribōlax), meaning 'with large clods of rich, loamy, soil' (LSJ s.v. ἐριβῶλαξ), to a place called Larisa, but this is generally identified as either the 'Aeolian' or 'Ionian' Larisa on the basis of Homer, Iliad 17.301: Strabo 13.3.2, Robert (1951) 36 nn. 2-4, 64-5 n. 7.
  18. ^ Cook (1973) 218.
  19. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.43a: 'Some naturally warm water is fresh, such as that in Aigai in Cilicia and around Pagasai, as well as in Trojan Larissa' (trans. Gulick, Loeb vol. 1). He is quoting the late 4th century BC writer Theophrastus who was from the nearby island of Lesbos. Many editors correct the manuscripts to read 'around Tragasai in Trojan Larissa': Cook (1973) 220 n. 2.
  20. ^ Carusi (2003) 35-6.
  21. ^ Cook (1973) 221 n. 2, Cook (1988) 13-15.
  22. ^ Robert (1946) 516ff, Robert (1951) 16 n. 2.
  23. ^ Objections: Cook (1973) 219 n. 2, Cook (1988) 13-15. Cook would instead assign the coin to Ptolemais-Lebedos. A recent reappraisal of the history of Hamaxitus, which down-dates its synoecism with Alexandreia Troas to c. 188 - c. 171 BC, strengthens Robert's case: Bresson (2007) 139-58.
  24. ^ Plassart (1921) 8.
  25. ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.123 (mid-1st century AD): fuit et Polymedia civitas, Chrysa et Larisa alia; Zminthium templum durat, '(in this area) there was once the city-state of Polymedia, and Chrysa, and another Larisa; the temple of Smintheus is still there'; on what Pliny's use of fuit and fuerat implies, see Robert (1951) 46 n. 3. Robert (1982) 331 n. 76 adduces Larisa's absence from a list of cities participating in the festival of Athena Ilias in 77 BC (OGIS 444) as another possible indication that by this point it had ceased to exist.

Bibliography edit

Ancient sources edit

Modern sources edit

  • J. Murray, A Classical Manual: Being a Mythological, Historical, and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil, London (1833).
  • L. Bürchner, Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. XII (1925) s.v. Λάρισα (7), col. 871.
  • A. Plassart, "Inscriptions de Delphes: la liste de théorodoques", Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 45 (1921) pp. 1–85.
  • L. Robert, "Villes de Carie et d'Ionie dans la liste des théorodoques de Delphes", Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 70 (1946) pp. 506–523.
  • L. Robert, Études de Numismatique Grecque (Paris, 1951).
  • J. M. Cook, The Troad: An Archaeological and Topographical Study (Oxford, 1973) pp. 218–221.
  • L. Robert, "Documents d'Asie Mineure", Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 106.1 (1982) pp. 319–333.
  • G. S. Kirk, The Iliad: A Commentary, Cambridge University Press (1985–1993).
  • J. M. Cook, "Cities in and around the Troad", Annual of the British School at Athens, 83 (1988) pp. 7–19.
  • A. G. Akalın, 'Larisa und der Liman-Tepe in der Troas' in Studien zum antiken Kleinasien. Band III (Bonn, 1991) pp. 63–68.
  • C. Carusi, Isole e Peree in Asia Minore (Pisa, 2003) pp. 35–37.
  • S. Mitchell, "Larisa" in M.H. Hansen and T.H. Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford, 2004) no. 784.
  • M. Finkelberg, Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (Cambridge, 2005).
  • A. Bresson, "Hamaxitos en Troade" in J. Dalaison (ed.), Espaces et pouvoirs dans l’Antiquité de l’Anatolie à la Gaule (Grenoble, 2007), pp. 139–158.
  • S. Radt, Strabons Geographika: mit Übersetzung und Kommentar Vol. VII (Göttingen, 2008).

January 01, 1970
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Larissa Ancient Greek Larissa romanized Larissa was an ancient Greek city in the south west of the Troad region of Anatolia Its surrounding territory was known in Greek as the Larissaῖa Larissaia 1 It has been located on a small rise by the coast now known as Limantepe about 3 5 km from the village of Kosedere to the north east and 3 km from the village of Babadere to the east in the Ayvacik district of Canakkale province Turkey 2 As with other Greek toponyms containing the consonantal string ss spellings that drop one s exist alongside those that retain both in the ancient literary sources Larisa in the Troad should not be confused with Aeolian Larissa near Menemen or with Ionian Larissa in Izmir province 3 LarisaLarisaShown within TurkeyLocationBabadere Canakkale Province TurkeyRegionTroadCoordinates39 36 55 N 26 8 43 E 39 61528 N 26 14528 E 39 61528 26 14528TypeSettlementHistoryPeriodsEarly Bronze Age to Hellenistic period Contents 1 History 1 1 Bronze Age 1 2 Archaic and Classical 1 3 Hellenistic and Roman 2 See also 3 References 4 Bibliography 4 1 Ancient sources 4 2 Modern sourcesHistory editBronze Age edit Ceramic finds of Early Bronze Age III c 2700 c 2200 BC and Troy VI material suggest that Limantepe had been occupied since the mid 3rd millennium BC by a pre Greek population 4 The Augustan geographer Strabo considered the toponym Laris s a to be Pelasgian and it was understood by lexicographers in Antiquity to mean citadel 5 The specific attribution to the little understood Pelasgians should be treated with caution as scholars now generally consider this a catch all term used by Greeks to refer to the non Greek peoples whom they knew had previously inhabited Asia Minor but understood little about 6 Nevertheless modern philologists do consider the consonantal string ss to be pre Greek and possibly Luwian in origin and so it is quite possible that the name Larisa represents a pre Greek survival 7 Larisa in Troad was likely the Larisa mentioned by Homer in his catalogue of Troy s allies in the Iliad 8 Some early historians located it in Thrace but Geoffrey Kirk has shown that they were confused by a mistake of Strabo and that the site of Larisa in Troad fits well with the other mentions of the Pelasgians in the Iliad 9 10 11 Archaic and Classical edit We hear nothing about Larisa in the Archaic Greek period from our literary sources but ceramic finds at Limantepe indicate Greek occupation from the late 8th century BC 12 In 427 BC Larisa was one of the so called Actaean cities that Athens took from Mytilene following the end of the Mytilenean revolt and it appears in the Athenian tribute assessments in 425 424 BC and 422 421 BC 13 In 425 424 BC it had an assessment of 3 talents a relatively high figure compared to other cities in the Troad As a former member of the Mytilenaean peraia it is thought that the Greeks who originally settled Larisa were from Mytilene as was the case with the other Actaean cities 14 A corrupt passage of Strabo used to be understood as instead supporting the idea that Larisa and its neighbour to the north Kolonai belonged to the peraia of the island of Tenedos but scholars now prefer to restore Lesbos in the lacuna 15 Larisa was forcibly re incorporated into the Persian Empire in 399 BC before being freed once more by the Spartan Dercylidas in 398 BC 16 The relatively high Athenian tribute assessment for Larisa of 3 talents suggests that during the Classical period it was a comparatively wealthy settlement It lay in a large fertile plain between the Acheloos river to the north and the Satnioeis river to the south that would have provided good farmland 17 In addition it had access in Classical Antiquity to an excellent harbour 18 Its border to the south with Hamaxitus was marked by the Satnioeis river modern Tuzla Cay and for a period in the late 4th century BC it may have controlled the lucrative salt pans at Tragasai which though north of the Satnioeis were in general controlled by Hamaxitus 19 Beyond the Acheloos lay the territory of Kolonai which appears to have been in some sort of semi dependent relationship with Larisa further increasing the city s revenues 20 Hellenistic and Roman edit The history of Larisa in the Hellenistic period is extremely obscure It has generally been thought that Larisa lost its political independence in a synoecism with Antigoneia Troas c 310 BC 21 However the eminent French epigrapher Louis Robert consistently challenged this view arguing that Larisa and Hamaxitus remained independent until after the Treaty of Apamea Moreover he proposed on the basis of a legend on a coin found at Limantepe the site of Larisa that for a period in the 3rd century BC Larisa was refounded by the Ptolemaic dynasty as Ptolemais 22 This theory has by no means won universal favour and at present there is too little archaeological or numismatic evidence to decide the matter 23 Whether or not Larisa was still a polis at the time the Delphic thearodokoi stopped off there c 230 220 BC indicating that there was still a settlement of some description on the site at this point 24 However by the beginning of the Roman period Larisa appears to have been abandoned altogether 25 See also editList of ancient Greek citiesReferences edit Strabo 13 1 48 Robert 1951 36 68 Cook 1973 218 21 Akalin 1991 65 The number of places named Laris s a was remarked upon in Classical Antiquity Strabo 9 5 19 13 2 3 Pliny the Elder Naturalis Historia 5 123 Stephanus of Byzantium s v Larisai poleis i RE XII 1925 s v Larisa coll 840 73 lists 15 places known as Laris s a Cook 1973 219 Akalin 1991 65 6 Strabo 9 5 19 13 3 2 Stephanus of Byzantium s v Larissa Scholion on Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities 1 40 See most recently Finkelberg 2005 The Larisa referred to by Homer as being inhabited by the tribe of the Pelasgians Iliad 2 840 1 cf 17 301 probably refers to the Ionian or Aeolian Larisa Robert 1951 36 nn 2 4 Finkelberg 2005 42 64 Homer Iliad ii 840 Strabo 13 3 2 Murray A Classical Manual p 135 who placed Larisa in Thrace Kirk Commentary vol I p 257 Cook 1973 218 19 IG I3 71 III 130 IG I3 77 IV 19 Carusi 2003 35 6 Strabo 13 1 47 Larisa kaὶ Kolwnaὶ tῆs 10 dias oὖsai proteron Larisa and Kolonai which previously belonged to the 10 DIAS In his 1833 edition Groskurd saw that the d must be an a D for A a common palaeographical mistake and so restored Tenediwn peraias the Tenedian Peraia However this is 11 letters not 10 and so Cook s restoration of Lesbiwn peraias the peraia of the Lesbians which also agrees with the epigraphic evidence is now universally accepted Cook 1973 197 8 Carusi 2003 36 Radt 2008 497 Xenophon Hellenica 3 1 16 Diodorus Siculus 14 38 3 Homer gives the epithet ἐribῶla3 eribōlax meaning with large clods of rich loamy soil LSJ s v ἐribῶla3 to a place called Larisa but this is generally identified as either the Aeolian or Ionian Larisa on the basis of Homer Iliad 17 301 Strabo 13 3 2 Robert 1951 36 nn 2 4 64 5 n 7 Cook 1973 218 Athenaeus Deipnosophistae 2 43a Some naturally warm water is fresh such as that in Aigai in Cilicia and around Pagasai as well as in Trojan Larissa trans Gulick Loeb vol 1 He is quoting the late 4th century BC writer Theophrastus who was from the nearby island of Lesbos Many editors correct the manuscripts to read around Tragasai in Trojan Larissa Cook 1973 220 n 2 Carusi 2003 35 6 Cook 1973 221 n 2 Cook 1988 13 15 Robert 1946 516ff Robert 1951 16 n 2 Objections Cook 1973 219 n 2 Cook 1988 13 15 Cook would instead assign the coin to Ptolemais Lebedos A recent reappraisal of the history of Hamaxitus which down dates its synoecism with Alexandreia Troas to c 188 c 171 BC strengthens Robert s case Bresson 2007 139 58 Plassart 1921 8 Pliny the Elder Naturalis Historia 5 123 mid 1st century AD fuit et Polymedia civitas Chrysa et Larisa alia Zminthium templum durat in this area there was once the city state of Polymedia and Chrysa and another Larisa the temple of Smintheus is still there on what Pliny s use of fuit and fuerat implies see Robert 1951 46 n 3 Robert 1982 331 n 76 adduces Larisa s absence from a list of cities participating in the festival of Athena Ilias in 77 BC OGIS 444 as another possible indication that by this point it had ceased to exist Bibliography editAncient sources edit Athenaeus Deipnosophistae Homer Iliad Pliny the Elder Naturalis Historia Strabo Geographica Xenophon Hellenica Modern sources edit J Murray A Classical Manual Being a Mythological Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope s Homer and Dryden s Aeneid of Virgil London 1833 L Burchner Realencyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft vol XII 1925 s v Larisa 7 col 871 A Plassart Inscriptions de Delphes la liste de theorodoques Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique 45 1921 pp 1 85 L Robert Villes de Carie et d Ionie dans la liste des theorodoques de Delphes Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique 70 1946 pp 506 523 L Robert Etudes de Numismatique Grecque Paris 1951 J M Cook The Troad An Archaeological and Topographical Study Oxford 1973 pp 218 221 L Robert Documents d Asie Mineure Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique 106 1 1982 pp 319 333 G S Kirk The Iliad A Commentary Cambridge University Press 1985 1993 J M Cook Cities in and around the Troad Annual of the British School at Athens 83 1988 pp 7 19 A G Akalin Larisa und der Liman Tepe in der Troas in Studien zum antiken Kleinasien Band III Bonn 1991 pp 63 68 C Carusi Isole e Peree in Asia Minore Pisa 2003 pp 35 37 S Mitchell Larisa in M H Hansen and T H Nielsen eds An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis Oxford 2004 no 784 M Finkelberg Greeks and Pre Greeks Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition Cambridge 2005 A Bresson Hamaxitos en Troade in J Dalaison ed Espaces et pouvoirs dans l Antiquite de l Anatolie a la Gaule Grenoble 2007 pp 139 158 S Radt Strabons Geographika mit Ubersetzung und Kommentar Vol VII Gottingen 2008 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Larisa Troad amp 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