Coracae or Korakai (Ancient Greek: Κορακαί) was a town and polis (city-state) on the Pagasetic Gulf in Magnesia in ancient Thessaly. It is mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as between Methone and Spalauthra. Earlier writers tried to equate the town with Korope, but that has not been generally accepted.
Coracae is noted in two inscriptions from Delphi of the fourth century BCE. It has been suggested that the town's location could have been on a hill called Nevestiki, near the current village of Lekonas, where remains of a fortification have been found, but that location has been suggested by others as the site of Methone.
References
- Henri Estienne (1841). Thesaurus Graecae Linguae. Vol. 4. p. 1822. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 719–720. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 65.
- Friedrich Stählin: Κορακαί.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. XI,2, Stuttgart 1922, col. 1370 f.
- Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 55.
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