Geography

​It remains to speak of the order of the coastline under Achilles, beginning from Thermopylae; for we have already spoken of the Locrian and [Euboean] coastlines. Now, Thermopylae is separated from Cenaeum by a strait of seventy stadia, and to one sailing out past Pylyae, the Spercheius is about ten stadia; and thence to Phalara is twenty; and above Phalara, fifty stadia from the sea, lies the [city of the Lamians]. Then next, to one who has sailed a hundred stadia, Echinus lies above. In the inland of the next coastline is Larisa Cremaste, being twenty stadia distant from it, the same which is also called Pelasgian Larisa. Then Myonnesos, a small island, then Antron; and this was under Protesilaus. So much, then, concerning the [part] under Achilles.

​Since the poet, [dividing] into many and well-known parts by naming the leaders and those under them, arranged the whole circuit of Thessaly , we, following him again as we did in the preceding parts, shall complete the remaining tour of the country. He lists next, after those under Achilles, those under Protesilaus; and these are those who are next along the coastline under Achilles as far as Antron. The territory next to be bounded, therefore, is that under Protesilaus, being outside the [Maliac] gulf, but still inside Phthiotis, though not [Phthia]. Now, Phylace is near Phthiotic Thebes, which are themselves also under Protesilaus; Halus also and Larisa Cremaste and Demetrium are under him, all to the east of Othrys. And Demetrium he called “the precinct of Demeter” and named Pyrasos. Pyrasos was a city with a good harbor at [a distance of] two stadia, having a grove of Demeter and a holy temple, being twenty stadia distant from Thebes; and above Pyrasos lies Thebes. In the inland of Thebes is the Crocian plain near the end of Othrys, through which the Amphrysus flows. Above this lies Itonus, where is the temple of Itonia (from which the one in Boeotia is also named), and the Cuarius river; which was mentioned [concerning] Arne in the Boeotian chapters. These belong to Thessaliotis, one of the four divisions of the whole of Thessaly, to which also belong the territory under Eurypylus, and the temple of Phyllius at Phyllus, and Ichnae, where Themis Ichnaea is honored. And Cierus also contributes to it, and [the territory] of Athamania. And opposite Antron there is an underwater reef in the strait towards Euboea, called “the Ass of Antron”. Then Pteleum and Halus; then the temple of Demeter and Pyrasos, which has been razed, and above it Thebes; then the promontory Pyrrha and two small islands nearby, of which one is called Pyrrha and the other Deucalion; and here Phthiotis somehow ends.