词条 | Metropolis (Thessaly) |
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We learn from an inscription that the territory of Metropolis adjoined that of Cierium (the ancient Arne), and that the adjustment of their boundaries was a frequent subject of discussion between the two peoples. Metropolis is mentioned in the sixth century by Hierocles. The remains of Metropolis are at the small village about {{convert|5|miles}} southwest of Karditsa formerly called Paleokastro, but since renamed Mitropoli (Μητρόπολη) to reflect its association with the historic town.[7][8] The city was of a circular form, and in the centre of the circle are the vestiges of a circular citadel, part of the wall of which still exists in the yard of the village church, where is a collection of the sculptured or inscribed remains found upon the spot. Among other sculptures noticed by William Martin Leake during his visit in the early nineteenth century, one in low relief, representing a figure seated upon a rock, in long drapery, and a mountain rising in face of the figure, at the foot of which there is a man in a posture of adoration, while on the top of the mountain there are other men, one of whom holds a hog in his hands. Leake conjectured with great probability that the seated figure represents the Aphrodite of Metropolis, to whom Strabo says[3] that hogs were offered in sacrifice.[9] Metropolis minted silver coins dated to {{circa|400-344 BCE}} bearing the legends «ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ[ΛΙΤΩΝ]» and «ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛ».[1] References1. ^1 {{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|pages= 697-698}} {{DGRG|title=Metropolis}}{{thessaly-geo-stub}}{{AncientGreece-stub}}2. ^{{Cite Stephanus|s. v.}} 3. ^1 {{Cite Strabo|IX, v, 17.}} 4. ^Caes. B C. 3.81; Appian, App. BC 2.64; D. C. 41.51. 5. ^{{Cite Livy|32.13.}} 6. ^{{Cite Livy|32.15.}} 7. ^{{Cite DARE|22804}} 8. ^{{Barrington|55}} 9. ^Leake, Travels in Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 506. 7 : Cities in ancient Greece|Archaeological sites in Greece|Geography of Karditsa (regional unit)|Former populated places in Greece|Populated places in ancient Thessaly|Thessaliotis|Thessalian city-states |
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