Orthos (Ancient Greek: Ὄρθος, Ὄρθοι, or Ὄρθα) was a town and polis (city-state) in ancient Thessaly.[1]
The city appears in epigraphic texts dated to the 4th century BCE. In an inscription at Delphi of the year 341/0 BCE the name appears in genitive form (Ὄρθου).[2] In addition, bronze coins of Orthos dated between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE are preserved with the legends «ΟΡΘΙ», «ΟΡΘΙΕΩΝ» and «ΟΡΘΙΕΙΩΝ». The city's name appears in a list of theorodokoi at Delphi dated to c. 230-220 BCE[3]
Its location is northeast of modern village of Kedros[4][1]
References
Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 698-699. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
CID 2:12,I68.
BCH 45 (1921) III, 27; IV, 25.
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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