Εμφανίζονται 1 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Αρχαίες πηγές στην ευρύτερη περιοχή: "ΑΙΓΙΝΑ Νησί ΕΛΛΑΔΑ" .
ΑΙΓΙΝΑ (Νησί) ΕΛΛΑΔΑ
Aegina is the name of a place in Epidauria;
and it is also the name of an island lying off this part of the mainland--the
Aegina of which the poet means to speak in the verses just cited; and it is on
this account that some write "the island Aegina" instead of "who held Aegina,"
thus distinguishing between places of the same name. Now what need have I to say
that the island is one of the most famous? for it is said that both Aeacus and
his subjects were from there. And this is the island that was once actually mistress
of the sea and disputed with the Athenians
for the prize of valor in the sea fight at Salamis
at the time of the Persian War. The island is said to be one hundred
and eighty stadia in circuit; and it has a city of the same name that faces southwest;
and it is surrounded by Attica,
Megaris, and the Peloponnesus
as far is Epidaurus, being
distant about one hundred stadia from each; and its eastern and southern sides
are washed by the Myrtoan
and Cretan Seas; and around
it lie small islands, many of them near the mainland, though Belbina
extends to the high sea. The country of Aegina is fertile at a depth below the
surface, but rocky on the surface, and particularly the level part; and therefore
the whole country is bare, although it is fairly productive of barley. It is said
that the Aeginetans were called Myrmidons,--not as the myth has it, because, when
a great famine occurred, the ants became human beings in answer to a prayer of
Aeacus, but because they excavated the earth after the manner of ants and spread
the soil over the rocks, so as to have ground to till, and because they lived
in the dugouts, refraining from the use of soil for bricks. Long ago Aegina was
called Oenone, the same name as that of two demes in Attica,
one near Eleutherae, "to
inhabit the plains that border on Oenone
and Eleutherae;" and another,
one of the demes of the Marathonian
Tetrapolis, to which is applied the proverb, "To Oenone
--the torrent." Aegina was colonized successively by the Argives,
the Cretans, the Epidaurians,
and the Dorians; but later the Athenians
divided it by lot among settlers of their own; and then the Lacedaemonians
took the island away from the Athenians
and gave it back to its ancient settlers. And colonists were sent forth by the
Aeginetans both to Cydonia
in Crete and to the country
of the Ombrici.
Ephorus says that silver was first coined in Aegina, by Pheidon; for the island,
he adds, became a merchant center, since, on account of the poverty of the soil,
the people employed themselves at sea as merchants, and hence, he adds, petty
wares were called "Aeginetan merchandise." (Strabo 8.6.16)
The poet (Homer)... connects Mases
with Aegina, although it is in Argolis
on the mainland.(Strabo 8.6.17)
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