Demetrias

Demetrias was a Greek city in Magnesia in ancient Thessaly, situated at the head of the Pagasaean Gulf, near the modern city of Volos [1]. In 196 BC, the Romans, victorious in the Battle of Cynoscephalae over Philip V in the previous year, took possession of Demetrias and garrisoned the town [1]. Four years later the Aetolian League captured it by surprise [1]. Demetrias was located at Aivaliotika, about 3 km south of Volos [1]. Remains of the walls (about 11 km) and the acropolis that was to the northwest in the highest point of the city are preserved [1]. Also uncovered were the theater, the Heroon, an aqueduct, the sacred agora, and the Anaktoron east of the city on the top of a hill, which was occupied until the middle of second century BC, and later used by the Romans as a cemetery [1].