Medius
Μήδιος
(Μήδιος).
1. Dynast of Larissa in Thessaly, who was engaged in a war with Lycophron, tyrant of Pherae, in the year B. C. 395. In this he was assisted by the Boeotians, who had just concluded an alliance with the Argives, Corinthians, and Athenians, against the power of Sparta, and with their assistance he took the city of Pharsalus (Diod. 14.82). These events are omitted by Xenophon.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.