Coroneia (Thessaly)

Coroneia or Koroneia (Ancient Greek: Κορώνεια) was a town of ancient Thessaly in Phthiotis, from which the Boeotian Coroneia probably derived its name.[1][2][3] It has not been located.[4]

It has been proposed that, if it donated money for the reconstruction of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi at the end of the 4th century BCE, it existed already prior to that date and also at least in classical period,[5] although there is no evidence that it coined currency until 308 BCE.[6]

It was one of the cities seized by Philip V of Macedon, during the Roman-Seleucid War, and from where the Roman Senate forced him to withdraw his garrisons.[7] It has been suggested that its location was next to the Thessaly border, in the vicinity of Iton.[8]

References

1. Strabo. Geographica. 9.5.10. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
2. Ptolemy. The Geography. 3.13.46.
3. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
5. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 687. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
6. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum 240.O.10.
7. Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 39.26.
8. Stählin, Friedrich (1924). Das hellenische Tessalien (in German). Stuttgart. p. 1431, no. 2.

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