Sosthenis

38°49′11″N 22°25′22″E / 38.819718°N 22.422726°E / 38.819718; 22.422726 Sosthenis (Ancient Greek: Σωσθενίς) was a town in Oetaea in ancient Thessaly. The town's name appears in an epigraph dated to c. 272-260 BCE, as providing a treasurer on behalf of the Aetolians in making an alliance with the Acarnanians.

Modern scholars tentatively locate Sosthenis at the modern site of Vardates.

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