Oloosson

39°53′55″N 22°11′15″E / 39.8987°N 22.1875°E / 39.8987; 22.1875

Oloosson (Ancient Greek: Ὀλοοσσών)^[1] was a town and polis (city-state)^[2] of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly near Elone and Gonnus,^[3] mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad by Homer, who gives to it the epithet of “white,” from its white argillaceous soil.^[4] In Procopius the name occurs in the corrupt form of Lossonus.^[5]

Several Greek inscriptions have been found concerning the city of Oloosson. In a votive inscription from the first half of the fourth century BCE that is dedicated to Apollo Pythius are also the names of some people together with various demonyms from Perrhaebia.^[6] In another inscription dated in the 1st century BCE, election procedures of magistrates are mentioned.^[7]

Ancient Oloosson was located at a site called Panayia in the modern town of Elassona.^[8]^[9]

References

^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 725. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.440. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.739.
^ Procop. de Aedif. 4.14
^ Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), tesis doctoral, p.794. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012).
^ Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), tesis doctoral, p.226. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012)., where the inscription is identified with the denomination IG (9) 2.1292.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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

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[1] Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.

[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. p. 725. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

[3] Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.440. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.

[Homer-4] Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.739.

[5] Procop. de Aedif. 4.14

[6] Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), tesis doctoral, p.794. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012).

[7] Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), tesis doctoral, p.226. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012)., where the inscription is identified with the denomination IG (9) 2.1292.

[8] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

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

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