Larisa
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
large deserted city
in the texts
On the Embassy
A city in Thessaly where the returning Athenian ambassadors dined together on their journey home from Macedonia.
And when we were all dining together at Larisa, he made fun of himself and the embarrassment which had come upon him in his speech, and he declared that Philip was the most wonderful man under the sun.
Anabasis
A large deserted city by the Tigris, formerly Median, with massive walls and a siege tradition.
Here was a large deserted city;
Near by this city was a pyramid of stone, a plethrum in breadth and two plethra in height;
This city was besieged by the king of the Persians at the time when the Persians were seeking to wrest from the Medes their empire, but he could in no way capture it.
Hellenica
Coastal Aeolian city, distinct from 'Egyptian Larisa,' first gained by Mania and later handed over voluntarily to Dercylidas.
It was at this juncture that Dercylidas arrived, and he forthwith took possession in a single day of Larisa, Hamaxitus, and Colonae, the cities on the coast, by their voluntary act;
and she not only kept securely for Pharnabazus the cities which she had received from her husband, but also gained possession of cities on the coast which had not been subject to him, Larisa, Hamaxitus, and Colonae—attacking their walls with a Greek mercenary force, while she herself looked on from a carriage;