Spalathra () or Spalauthra (Σπάλαυθρα),Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 25. also called Spalethre (Σπαλέθρη) and Spalathron (Σπάλαθρον), was a town and polis (city-state) of Magnesia, in ancient Thessaly, upon the Pagasetic Gulf. It is conjectured that this town is meant by Lycophron,Lycophron, Alexandra 899. who describes Prothous, the leader of the Magnetes in the Iliad, as ὁ ἐκ Παλαύθρων (Σπαλαύθρων). The town is also mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as a city in Magnesia, together with Iolcus, Coracae, Methone and Olizon.Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 65.
The toponym is related to the Greek word "σπάλαθρον", meaning fire poker.Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), doctoral thesis, p.936. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012). Perhaps from the shape of the peninsula on which it sat.Lycophron, Alexandra.
Spalathra was located within the limits of modern Chorto.
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