Larissa
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
fertile Larissa · the fertile land of Larissa
in the texts
Iliad
Fertile city, homeland of the Pelasgian spearsmen.
Hippothoos led the tribes of Pelasgian spearsmen, who dwelt in fertile Larissa - Hippothoos, and Pylaios of the race of Ares, two sons of the Pelasgian Lethus, son of Teutamus.
thus he died far from the fertile land of Larissa, and never repaid his parents the cost of bringing him up, for his life was cut short early by the spear of mighty Ajax.
Cyropaedia
A city near Cyme given by Cyrus to the settled Egyptians.
and Cyrus gave them cities, some in the interior, which even to this day are called Egyptian cities, and besides these Larissa and Cyllene near Cyme on the coast;