Doliche (Thessaly)

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Doliche is shown to the centre top near Mount Olympus.

Doliche (Greek: Δολίχη)^[1] was an ancient Greek city and polis (city-state) in Perrhaebia in Thessaly, situated at the foot of Mount Olympus.^[2] Doliche, with the two neighbouring towns of Azorus and Pythion (Pythium), formed a Tripolis.

During the Roman–Seleucid War, the Tripolis was ravaged by an army of the Aetolian League in the year 191 BCE.^[3] During the Third Macedonian War the three towns surrendered to the army of Perseus of Macedon in the year 171 BCE,^[4] but that same year the Romans reconquered the three.^[5] In the year 169 BCE troops arrived from the Roman consul Quintus Marcius Philippus who camped between Azorus and Doliche.^[6]^[7]

The three cities minted a common coin with the inscription "ΤΡΙΠΟΛΙΤΑΝ".^[8]

The site is occupied by the modern town of Dolichi;^[9]^[10] when William Martin Leake visited the site in the 19th century, he found two fragments of Doric columns 2 feet 8 inches (81 cm) in diameter in a ruined church, and a sepulchral stone in the burying-ground, together with some squared blocks.^[11]

References

^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.42.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 722-723. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 36.10.
^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.53.
^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.67.
^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 28.11, 28.13.1.
^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 44.2.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 721-722. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
^ William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 344.

Sources

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

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[1] Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.42.

[Poleis-2] Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 722-723. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

[3] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 36.10.

[4] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.53.

[5] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 42.67.

[6] Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 28.11, 28.13.1.

[7] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 44.2.

[8] Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 721-722. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

[9] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

[10] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

[11] William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 344.

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