Oxyneia

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

OXYNEIA(Ὀξύνεια), a town of Thessaly, situated on the Ion, a tributary of the Peneius, and perhaps the capital of the Talares, occupied probably the valley of Mirítza. It is described by Strabo as distant 120 stadia from Azorus. (Strab. 7. p. 327; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 4. p. 279.)