Therme
Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece. It surrounds the entire north of the Thermaic Gulf, named after its predecessor. Exactly where Therma was remains a mystery. There is not much room for archaeological excavation between all the modern skyscrapers, and the parklands are valued as such. However, two large habitation mounds remain available and have been extensively excavated. No literary or inscriptional fragment ties them to Therma. The pottery is Greek, but such is the case for any settlement of the times around the Aegean, regardless of known language or ethnic connections. Nearly all of Lower Macedonia was Macedonianized in classical times by the aggressive Argead dynasty, in which the original Thessaloniki, half-sister of Alexander the Great, became queen.
Literary fragments concerning Therma
Ethnicity
The question of polis
Synoecism into Thessaloniki
Archaeological sites of Therma
Mikro Emvolo
Toumba
See also
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
- Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books, with Introduction [1] Reginald Walter Macan
- The Letters to the Thessalonians [2] by Gene L. Green
- From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City [3] By Richard Allan Tomlinson
- Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greece)[4]
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