Orthe (Thessaly)

Orthe (Greek: Ὄρθη) was a town of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly. mentioned by Homer as ruled by Polypoetes in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.^[1] It was said by Strabo to have become the acropolis of Phalanna.^[2] It occurs, however, in the lists of Pliny the Elder as a distinct town from Phalanna.^[3] Some modern scholars accept the equivalence,^[4] while others only do so tentatively.^[5]

References

1. Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.739.
2. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.440. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
3. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.9.16.
4. 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.
5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Orthe". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.