* LarissaTora. com A website about the prefecture of larissa with the coin image in its banner ( contains some information about the mythological Nymph named Larissa also ).

Litochoro is located 22 km S of Katerini, 90 km SSW of Thessaloniki, 58 km N of Larissa and 420 km WNW of Athens, on the eastern slopes of Mount Olympus, of mythological fame as the home of the twelve gods of Olympus.

In mythology, the nymph Larissa was a daughter of the primordial man Pelasgus.

The obverse depicted the nymph of the local spring, Larissa, for whom the town was named ; probably the choice was inspired by the famous coins of Kimon depicting the Syracusan nymph Arethusa.

In Greek mythology, Larissa ( Greek: Λάρισα ) was a local nymph from Thessaly.

Other coins depict Larissa seated, holding a hydria and with a spring nearby, confirming her status as a nymph.

* Larissa ( mythology ), a nymph from Greek mythology

In 1890 and 1893, Staes cleared out certain less rich tholos-tombs at Thoricus in Attica ; and other graves, either rock-cut " bee-hives " or chambers, were found at Spata and Aphidna in Attica, in Aegina and Salamis, at the Argive Heraeum and Nauplia in the Argolid, near Thebes and Delphi, and not far from the Thessalian Larissa.

However, the terminal illness of Radek's lover, Larissa Reissner, saw Radek lose his inhibitions and he began publicly criticising Stalin, in particular debating Stalin's doctrine of Socialism in One Country at the Communist Academy Radek was sacked from his post at Sun Yat-Sen University in May 1927.

Mount Ossa ( Greece ) | Mount Ossa viewed from Pineios ( Thessaly ) | Pineios river in Larissa.

The region is directly linked to the rest of Europe through the International Airport of Central Greece located in Nea Anchialos a short distance from Larissa.

In this paragraph the poet Homer shows that the Pelasgians who were the Troyans allies, they used to have the city of Larissa as their own where they lived and come from there.

The name Larissa, inherited from the Pelasgian settlers — an alternative name for the district was Pelasgiotis — was common to many Pelasgian towns: the ancient Greek word larissa means " stronghold ".

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

As the chief city of ancient Thessaly, Larissa was directly annexed by Philip II of Macedon in 344, and from then on Larissa was under Macedonian control ; in 196 B. C.

Gravure from Larissa c. 1820.

After two years and several lawsuits in Olympic and Swiss courts, the skiers in question ( Johann Mühlegg of Spain, and Larissa Lazutina and Olga Danilova of Russia ) were stripped of all their medals from the 2002 Games.

Dukakis ' mother Euterpe ( née Boukis ; 1903 – 2003 ) was a Vlach-Aromanian immigrant from Larissa ; she and her family emigrated to Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1913.

They migrated from there to Haemonia ( later called Thessaly ), where they " drove out the barbarian inhabitants " and divided the country into Phthiotis, Achaia, and Pelasgiotis, named after Achaeus, Phthius and Pelasgus, " the sons of Larissa and Poseidon.

In 1890 and 1893, Staes cleared out certain, less rich dome-tombs at Thoricus in Attica ; and other graves, either rock-cut " bee-hives " or chambers, were found at Spata and Aphidna in Attica, in Aegina and Salamis, at the Heraeum ( see Argos ) and Nauplia in the Argolid, near Thebes and Delphi, and not far from the Thessalian Larissa.

Category: People from Larissa ( regional unit )

Motorway 4 ( A4 ) is a planned motorway from Larissa to Trikala, connecting the A1 motorway with the A3 respectively.

* Greek National Road 6: Igoumenitsa – Ioannina – Metsovo-Trikala – Larissa – Volos ( runs parallel to Egnatia Odos from Igoumenitsa to Metsovo )

His friend and companion Antiochus of Ascalon received, evidently from the Great Library, a copy of a work by the scholarch of the Academy, Philo of Larissa, so radical in its sceptical stance that Antiochos was sufficiently disturbed to doubt the attribution of authorship to his old teacher.

The arx of Argos and two towns ( Larissa in Thessaly and one in the Peneus ) are believed to have derived their name ( meaning " citadel ") from her.

In 1990 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky released a new translation ; it won a PEN / Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize in 1991 and garnered positive reviews from The New York Times Book Review and the Dostoyevsky scholar Joseph Frank, who praised it for being the most faithful to Dostoyevsky's original Russian.

* In May 2008, a two-inch ( 5 cm ) embryo was removed from the belly of a 9-year-old girl at Larissa General Hospital in Greece after she was diagnosed with a tumor on the right side of her belly.

The states of Thessaly, which had previously acknowledged the authority of Jason of Pherae, were not so willing to submit to Alexander the tyrant, ( especially the old family of the Aleuadae of Larissa, who had most reason to fear him ).

At the very outset, he had to meet the formidable attack of the Normans ( led by Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund ), who took Dyrrhachium and Corfu, and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly ( see Battle of Dyrrhachium ).

Larissa (, ) is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit.

As the chief town and military base of Ottoman Thessaly, Larissa was a predominantly Muslim city.

Larissa sits in the middle of the plain of Thessaly, with connections to Motorway A1 and national roads EO3 and EO6.

In Archaic and Classical times, the lowlands of Thessaly became the home of baronial families, such as the Aleuadae of Larissa or the Scopads of Crannon.

The metropolitan area of Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, is home to more than 230, 000 people, making it the biggest city of the region.

Along with Central Greece, it is supervised by the Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece, based at Larissa.

* Archelaus I, King of Macedonia, helps establish a pro-Macedonian oligarchy in Larissa in Thessaly.

In Thessaly, Pelasgus was described as the father of Chlorus, and as the grandfather of Haemon, or as the father of Haemon, and as the grand father of Thessalus, or again as a son of Poseidon and Larissa, and as the founder of the Thessalian Argos.

Bohemond served under his father in the great attack on the Byzantine Empire ( 1080 – 1085 ) and commanded the Normans during Guiscard's absence ( 1082 – 1084 ), penetrating into Thessaly as far as Larissa, but being eventually repulsed by Alexius I Comnenus.

The Aleuadae family, who ruled Larissa in Thessaly, saw the invasion as an opportunity to extend their power.

The Pieria regional unit is bordered by Larissa ( Thessaly ) to the south and west, Kozani to the west and Imathia to the north.

In 985 Samuel captured Thessaly and the important city of Larissa, and in 989 he pillaged Thessalonica.

Parisius in his manuscript infers that it got the name from Larissa, a city in Thessaly, before the birth of Christ.

At that time the Sarmatians called the Mesians invaded Italy from the town of Larissa in Thessaly, and captured many people as the spoils of war.

* Melissa, a village in the municipal unit Kileler, Larissa regional unit, Thessaly