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Cierium

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277:, which is sufficient to indicate the site of Cierium. Leake supposes with much probability that the name of Arne may have been disused by the Thessalian conquerors because it was of Boeotian origin, and that the new appellation may have been taken from the neighbouring river, since it was not an uncommon custom to derive the name of a town from the river upon which it stood. 430: 52: 284:
which is undoubtedly only another appellation of the same place, π and κ being, according to Smith, often interchangeable. Pierium was probably the general, and Cierium the local form. Pierium is first mentioned by Thucydides. It is called
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Itonia in memory of their former abode in Thessaly. Smith concludes that the river upon which Cierium stood was called Cuerius, Cuarius or Curalius, more especially as
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and other authors add that only a few Boeotians decided to stay in Arne and remain as servants of the Thessalians and were called
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or Coralius in Boeotia. The expelled Boeotians gave this name to the river, and founded upon its banks a temple of
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by Livy, in both of which passages it is mentioned in connection with Metropolis. In an Armenian translation of
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Stephanus of Byzantium identified this Arne located in Thessaly with the city of Cierium, which was accepted by
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also appears to speak of this temple of Athena Itonia, since he describes it as situated between
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cites as evidence of the identification of Arne with Cierium an inscription, which mentions
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Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions".
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sent embassies that offered the surrender of their cities and thus obtained clemency.
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Cierium is not mentioned under this name in history; but it occurs under the form
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mentions a river Curalius in Thessaly, flowing through the territory of
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Map showing ancient Thessaly. Cierium is shown to the lower centre.
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by Roman troops and their allies, the cities of Cierium and of
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Cuerius (Κουέριος), a name evidently connected with the river
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and adjacent fortresses. Shortly thereafter Roman consul
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Index

39°22′00″N 22°03′59″E / 39.36679°N 22.06635°E / 39.36679; 22.06635

Ancient Greek
polis
Thessaliotis
ancient Thessaly
Stephanus of Byzantium
Homeric
Arne
Boeotia
Thucydides
Boeotians
Boeotia
Trojan War
Thessalians
Archemachus of Euboea
penestae
William Smith
Magoula Makria
Second Macedonian War
Phaloria
Metropolis
Roman–Seleucid War
Antiochus III the Great
Metropolis
Manius Acilius Glabrio
Battle of Thermopylae
Pyrgos Kieriou
Arni
Sofades

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