Anticyra (Thessaly)

Antikyra or Anticyra (Greek: Αντίκυρα, Antíkyra) was an ancient Greek city on the right bank of the Spercheios near its mouth on the Malian Gulf in Thessaly. To its south lay Mount Oeta. To distinguish it from the city of the same name in Phocis (now Boeotia), the Thessalian Antikyra was often distinguished as Malian Antikyra. Both were famed for their black and white hellebore, a prized herb in ancient Greek medicine.

See also

• Phocian Antikyra, also the modern Antikyra
• Locrian Antikyra, a phantom city invented by Titus Livius

References

Bibliography

• "Anticyra" , Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. II, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878, p. 127; reprinted 1911 in the 11th edition's article on "Anticyra".
• Hahnemann, Samuel (1812), Dissertatio Historico-Medica de Helleborismo Veterum ["Medical Historical Dissertation on the Helleborism of the Ancients"] (in Latin), Leipzig: reprinted 2004 in New Delhi as pp. 569–615 of Robert Ellis Dudgeon's Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help).