Anticyra (Thessaly)

Antikyra or Anticyra (Ancient Greek: Αντίκυρα, romanized: Antíkyra[1] or Ἀντίκιρρα[2] - Antíkirra or Ἀντίκυρρα[3] - Antíkyrra or Ἀντίκυραι[4] - Antíkyrae) was an ancient Greek city and polis (city-state) on the right bank of the Spercheios near its mouth on the Malian Gulf in district of Malis in Thessaly.

[5][6][7] To its south lay Mount Oeta.

[citation needed] Both were famed for their black and white hellebore, a prized herb in ancient Greek medicine.

[8] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World tentatively identify the site of Anticyra at the modern village of Kostalexis (Κωσταλέξης) in the municipality of Lamia.

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