Editing Volos (section)

===Antiquity===
{{Further|Ancient Greece|Hellenistic Greece}}
[[File:Volanakis Constantine epistrofi argonauton.jpeg|thumb|240px|''The return of the Argonauts'' by [[Konstantinos Volanakis|Constantine Volanakis]] (1837–1907).]]

Modern Volos is built on the area of the ancient cities of [[Demetrias]], [[Pagasae]] and [[Iolcos]]. Demetrias was established in 293 BC by [[Demetrius Poliorcetes]], King of [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedon]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Helly |first=Bruno |editor-last=Hornblower |editor-first=Simon |encyclopedia= The Oxford Classical Dictionary |title= Demetrias | url= https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001/acref-9780199545568-e-2087 |access-date=11 June 2020 |edition=4th |year=2012 |publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn= 9780191735257 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001|url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[Iolcus]], or Iolkos, was known in mythology as the homeland of the hero [[Jason]], who boarded the ship [[Argo]] accompanied by the [[Argonauts]] and sailed in quest of the [[Golden Fleece]] to [[Colchis]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Hunter |first=R. |editor-last=Hornblower |editor-first=Simon |encyclopedia= The Oxford Classical Dictionary |title= Jason | url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001/acref-9780199545568-e-3483 |access-date=11 June 2020 |edition=4th |year=2012 |publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn= 9780191735257 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001|url-access=subscription }}</ref> To the west of Volos lie the [[Neolithic]] settlements of [[Dimini]], with a ruined [[acropolis]], walls, and two beehive tombs dating to between 4000 and 1200 BC, and [[Sesklo]], with the remains of the oldest acropolis in Greece (6000 BC). The mound of Kastro/Palaia in western Volos is the site of a [[Bronze Age]] settlement, including a [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] palace complex where a couple of preserved [[Linear B]] tablets have been found.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Dickinson |first=Oliver T. P. K. |editor-last=Hornblower |editor-first=Simon |encyclopedia= The Oxford Classical Dictionary |title= Iolcus (mod. Volos) |chapter=Iolcus | url= https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001/acref-9780199545568-e-3313 |access-date=11 June 2020 |edition=4th |year=2012 |publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn= 9780191735257 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Asderaki-Tzoumerkioti |first1=E. |last2= Rehren |first2=Th. |last3= Skafida |first3=E. |last4= Vaxevanopoulos |first4=M. |last5= Connolly |first5=P. J. |display-authors=3 |date=2017 |title= Kastro Palaia settlement, Volos, Greece: a diachronical technological approach to bronze metalwork |journal= STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages= 179–193 |doi=10.1080/20548923.2018.1427182 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017STAR....3..179A }}</ref>