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The names of its rulers were thoroughly Hellenised, seemingly already by the time of Homer around the eighth century BC, so that no Pelasgian naming elements survived. Strabo expressed the opinion that the Larissa which some sources quote for this city is not the one mentioned by Homer in The Iliad. That was said to have been far from Troy and ...
Lárissa, town and dímos (municipality), Thessaly (Modern Greek: Thessalía) periféreia (region), central Greece. It is located on the Pineiós (also called Peneus) Potamós (river). Since the 9th century it has been the seat of a bishop. In antiquity Lárissa was the seat of the Aleuad clan, founded by
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History. The history of the fortifications on Larissa Hill begins in prehistoric times and reaches the Greek revolution of 1821. Part of the long history of the city of Argos from prehistoric times, it was, from the first, a fortified observation post and the last line of defence for the city.
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Just one year after Rim-Sin’s conquest of Isin, a ruler named Hammurabi (r. ca. 1792–1750 B.C.) ascended the throne of Babylon, a city that lay to the north of Nippur and past the reach of the Isin and Larsa kings.
It is supposed the Turkish wall may lie on the line of the ancient one; if so, the circuit of Larissa (counting the river) would be approximately 7 km. There are no visible remains of the city wall, however. In the NW part of the city, close to the river, is a hill (96 m) which was the ancient acropolis. It was fortified in Byzantine times.
Early facing head drachms are quite varied in obverse iconography and style, relecting the stimulating challenge presented by the facing head motif to Larissa’s die engravers, some of whom signed their dies. he reverse type is usually a grazing horse, though the type of a crouching horse, about to roll, was employed for a time, and the horse ...
