Pteleum orPteleon (Ancient Greek:Πτελεόν), alsoPteleos (Πτελεός), was a town ofancient Thessaly, on the south-western side ofPhthiotis, and near the entrance of theSinus Pagasaeus. It stood betweenAntron andHalos, and was distant from the latter 110stadia, according toArtemidorus.[1] It is mentioned byHomer in theCatalogue of Ships in theIliad as governed byProtesilaus, to whom the neighbouring town of Antron also belonged.[2]
In 200 BCE, during theSecond Macedonian War, while theRomans and the forces ofAttalus I besiegedOreus (on Euboea), Pteleum was attacked by part of Attalus' army.[3] In 192 BCE,Antiochus III landed at Pteleum in order to carry on the war against the Romans in Greece.[4] In 171 BCE, the town, having been deserted by its inhabitants, was destroyed by theconsulLicinius.[5] It seems never to have recovered from this destruction, asPliny the Elder, writing in the first century, speaks of Pteleum only as a forest.[6] Strabo relates that this city established acolony (also namedPteleum) inElis.[7] The form Pteleos is used byLucan[8] andPomponius Mela.[9]
Pteleum's location is at a site calledFtelio nearGritsa.[10][11]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pteleum".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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