Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Review of R. Rönnlund, The cities of the plain. Urbanism in ancient western Thessaly, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2023 By Margriet J. Haagsma (University of Alberta) Bibliographical information Margriet J. Haagsma, ‘Review of R. Rönnlund, The cities of the plain. Urbanism in ancient western Thessaly, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2023’, Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 17, Stockholm 2024, pp. 264–266. ISSN 2000-0898. ISBN 978-91-977799-6-8. Softcover: 280 pages. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-17-16