Rhizus may also refer to Ριζαίον on the Black Sea, modern Rize.
Rhizus or Rhizous () was a town and polis of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly, whose inhabitants were transported by Demetrios Poliorketes to Demetrias upon the foundation of the latter city. According to Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, Rhizus was outside the Pagasaean Gulf, on the exterior (Aegean) shore.Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 24. In Strabo's time, it was a village dependent on Demetrias. Coins minted by Rhizus have been found, dated in the 4th century BCE.Ancient Greek Coins from RhizusRogers E., The Copper Coinage of Thessaly, London, 1932, pp. 169, 170
The site of Rhizus is at the modern village of Tarsanas (Ταρσανάς).
References
External links Ancient Thessaly Ancient Greek Coins NumisWiki The Geography of Strabo Classical Numismatic Group