Alope (Thessaly)

Alope (Ancient Greek: Ἀλόπη, romanized: Alópē) was a town of Phthiotis in Ancient Thessaly, placed by Stephanus of Byzantium between Larissa Cremaste and Echinus. There was a dispute among the ancient critics whether this town was the same as the Alope in Homer's Catalog of Ships.[1][2][3] Strabo distinguishes the town from two others of the same name, Alope in the area of Opuntian Locris and Alope in that of Ozolian Locris.[4][5] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World tentatively locate Alope with the modern village of Fournoi in the municipality of Echinaioi.[6]

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Alope is shown to the bottom right opposite Euboea (shown in pink).

References

1. Homer. Iliad. 2.682.
2. Strabo. Geographica. pp. 427, 432. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
3. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
4. Strabo. Geographica. IX.4.9, pp. 426, 427. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
5. Johannes Toepffer: Alope 1.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Volume I,2, Stuttgart 1894, col. 1595.
6. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.

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