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ARETHOUSSA (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
Arethusa (Arethousa: Eth. Arethousios), a town of Bisaltia in Macedonia, in the pass of Aulon, a
little N. of Bromiscus, and celebrated for containing the sepulchre of Euripides.
(Amm. Marc. xxvii. 4; Itin. Hierosol. p. 604; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii.
p. 170.) We learn from Scylax (c. 67) that it was an ancient Greek colony. It
was probably founded by the Chalcidians of Euboea, who may have called it after
the celebrated fountain in the neighbourhood of their city. Stephanus B. (s. v.)
erroneously calls it a city of Thrace. It was either from this place or from Bromiscus
that the fortified town of Rentine arose, which is frequently mentioned by the
Byzantine historians. (Tafel, Thessalonica, p. 68.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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