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39°23′07″N 22°32′25″E / 39.38533°N 22.5403°E / 39.38533; 22.5403

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Scotussa is shown near the centre.

Scotussa or Skotoussa (Ancient Greek: Σκοτοῦσσα[1] or Σκοτοῦσα[2] or Σκοτοτοῦσαι[3]) was a town and polis (city-state)[4] of Pelasgiotis in ancient Thessaly, lying between Pherae and Pharsalus, near the frontiers of Phthiotis. Scotussa is not mentioned in Homer, but according to some accounts the oracle of Dodona in Epirus originally came from this place.[1] In 394 BCE, the Scotussaei joined the other Thessalians in opposing the march of Spartan king Agesilaus II through their country.[5] In 367 BCE, Scotussa was treacherously seized by Alexander of Pherae, tyrant of the neighbouring town of Pherae.[6]

In the territory of Scotussa were the hills called Cynoscephalae, which are memorable as the scene of two battles, one fought in 364 BCE, between the Thebans and Alexander of Pherae, in which Pelopidas was slain, and the other, of still greater celebrity, fought in 197 BCE, in which Philip V of Macedon was defeated by the Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus.[7][8][9] In 191 BCE Scotussa surrendered to Antiochus III, but was recovered shortly afterwards, along with Pharsalus and Pherae, by the consul Manius Acilius Glabrio.[10]

Scotussa's site is at Agia Triada in the municipality of Farsala.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. vii. p.329. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 64.
  3. ^ Pausanias (1918). "27.6". Description of Greece. Vol. 7. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  4. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 706–707. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  5. ^ Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 4.3.3.
  6. ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 15.75.
  7. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.441. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  8. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 18.3 et seq.
  9. ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 33.6 et seq.
  10. ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 36.9-14.
  11. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  12. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.


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