Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Thessaly and the ethnos in Archaic central Greece -- 2 Thessaly and Archaic epic -- 3 The creation of Thessaly in the late Archaic and early Classical period: myths of origin and arrival -- 4 The creation of Thessaly in cult -- 5 Political co-operation in Thessaly from the sixth to the fourth century -- 6 Thessaly moves to the margins -- 7 Re-creations of Thessaly in the early Hellenistic period -- Concluding remarks -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index