Magnesia · Atlas

in the texts

ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

City whose Artemis sanctuary Clement identifies as containing a tomb.

Here it is not fitting to pass over the monument of Leucophryne, following Zenon of Myndus, who is buried in the sanctuary of Artemis in Magnesia;

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First OlynthiacClassical · Greek

A Thessalian place involved in Philip's settlement and later contested fortification.

They have formally resolved to demand the restitution of Pagasae and have hindered him from fortifying Magnesia.

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Then having settled Pherae, Pagasae, Magnesia, and the rest of that country to suit his purposes, off he went to Thrace, and there, after evicting some of the chiefs and installing others, he fell sick.

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Second OlynthiacClassical · Greek

A place promised to the Thessalians by Philip and later occupied, becoming a grievance against him.

for they have already decided to demand the restoration of Pagasae and to protest against the occupation of Magnesia.

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Lastly he has won over the Thessalians by promising to bestow Magnesia upon them and by undertaking to conduct the Phocian war in their interests.

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Second PhilippicClassical · Greek

A place given by Philip to the Thessalians.

Do you imagine, I said, that when he was expelling their despots, or again when he was presenting them with Nicaea and Magnesia, they ever dreamed that a Council of Ten would be established among them, as it is today, or that the same man who restored to them the Amphictyonic meeting at Thermopylae would also appropriate their own peculiar revenues?

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The HistoriesClassical · Greek

City above the river Maeander where Oroetes is based and where Polycrates is treacherously murdered.

But no sooner had Polycrates come to Magnesia than he was horribly murdered in a way unworthy of him and of his aims;

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But the consequence was that Oroetes, then at Magnesia which is above the river Maeander, sent Myrsus son of Gyges, a Lydian, with a message to

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De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

The region after which the Greeks named the magnet stone.

After the country's name (its origin

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Being in country of Magnesian folk).

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PythianClassical · Greek

The Thessalian region associated with Jason's native dress and the Magnesian mares of the Centaur myth.

his native Magnesian dress fitted to his marvellous limbs, and a leopard-skin wrapped around him protected him from shivering showers.

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

Ionian inland city where Tissaphernes and Alcibiades are found by Astyochus.

Now Astyochus did not so much as think of punishing Alcibiades—especially as he no longer put himself in his power as he used to do—but having gone up to him and Tissaphernes at Magnesia, at once told them the contents of the letter from Samos, acting as an informer to them, and for his own private gain devoting himself, as was said, to the interest of Tissaphernes both on these and on all other matters:

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