Pherai rose to regional dominance under Jason, who by 374 BC had unified Thessaly as tagos — the first to hold that office with genuine pan-Thessalian authority in generations. His bronze coinage, issued through this period, funded a military apparatus that alarmed both Sparta and Macedonia simultaneously. Jason was assassinated in 370 BC, just months after Xenophon described him as the most dangerous man in Greece.
Pherai rose to regional dominance under Jason, who by 374 BC had unified Thessaly as tagos — the first to hold that office with genuine pan-Thessalian authority in generations. His bronze coinage, issued through this period, funded a military apparatus that alarmed both Sparta and Macedonia simultaneously. Jason was assassinated in 370 BC, just months after Xenophon described him as the most dangerous man in Greece.