Gyrton (Thessaly)

Strabo connects Gyrton with the mouth of the Peneius;[3] but it is evident from the description of Livy, whose account has been derived from Polybius, that it stood in some part of those plains in which Phalanna, Atrax, and Larissa were situated.

[9] The Gyrtonians are mentioned among the Thessalians who sent aid to the Athenians at the commencement of the Peloponnesian War.

[10] The name of the city frequently occurs at a later period, by Livy, Polybius,[11] Pomponius Mela/[12] Pliny the Elder,[13] and Ptolemy.

[15] The location of Gyrton is a site called Mourlari, southeast of the modern town of Evangelismos.

Those at the end of this century had on the obverse a young Gyrton next to the head of a horse, or of Apollo or of Zeus laureate.