Orthe
Ὄρθη
Orthe (Ὄρθη), a town of Perrhaebia in Thessaly. mentioned by Homer (Hom. Il. 2.739), was said by Strabo (ix. p.440) to have become the acropolis of Plialanna. [PHALANNA] It occurs, however, in tlhe lists of Pliny (4.9. s. 16) as a distinct town from Phalanna.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.