Thessalian

Some of the most exquisitely crafted pieces are small decorative elements made for the harnesses of soldiers’ horses — the powerful and celebrated Thessalian breed, perhaps.

Theagenes, a noble Thessalian, comes to Delphi and the two fall in love with each other.

They represent a joint invasion of Peloponnesus by Aetolians and Dorians, the latter having been driven southward from their original northern home under pressure from the Thessalians.

������ proud beauty could have secured his love, or what forsaken one has caused some Thessalian witch to cast a spell on him?

The disposition of the Greeks to look to the west for the centres of religious feeling appears in the mention of Dodona and the Dodonaean Zeus, put in the mouth of the Thessalian Achilles.