Homer writes that it belonged to Nestor in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.
[1] It is said by Strabo to have been a colony from the Thessalian Pteleum.
This town had disappeared in Strabo's time (first century CE); but its uninhabited woody site was still called Pteleasimum or Pteleasion.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
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