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Proconnesus (Prokunnesos, or Prokonnesos in Zosim. ii. 30, and Hierocl.
p. 662), an island in the western part of the Propontis, between Priapus and Cyzicus,
and not, as Strabo (xiii. p. 589) has it, between Parium and Priapus. The island
was particularly celebrated for its rich marble quarries, which supplied most
of the neighbouring towns, and especially Cyzicus, with the materials for their
public buildings; the palace of Mausolus, also, was built of this marble, which
was white intermixed with black streaks. (Vitruv. ii. 8.) The island contained
in its south-western part a town of the same name, of which Aristeas, the poet
of the Arimaspeia, was a native. (Herod. iv. 14; comp. Scylax, p. 35; Strab. l.
c.) This town, which was a colony of the Milesians (Strab. xii. p. 587), was burnt
by a Phoenician fleet, acting under the orders of king Darius. (Herod. vi. 33.)
Strabo distinguishes between old and new Proconnesus; and Scylax, besides Proconnesus,
notices another island called Elaphonesus, with a good harbour. Pliny (v. 44)
and the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius (ii. 278) consider Elaphonesus only as
another name for Proconnesus; but Elaphonesus was unquestionably a distinct island,
situated a little to the south of Proconnesus. The inhabitants of Cyzicus, at
a time which we cannot ascertain, forced the Proconnesians to dwell together with
them, and transferred the statue of the goddess Dindymene to their own city. (Paus.
viii. 46. § 2.) The island of Proconnesus is mentioned as a bishopric in the ecclesiastical
historians and the acts of the Council of Chalcedon. The celebrity of its marble
quarries has changed its ancient name into Mermere or Marmora; whence the whole
of the Propontis is now called the Sea of Marmora.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Prokonnesos). Now Marmora; an island of the Propontis, which takes from it its modern name (Sea of Marmora), off the northern coast of Mysia, northwest of the peninsula of Cyzicus or Dolionis. The island was celebrated for its marble, and hence its modern name.
Total results on 13/8/2001: 34 for Proconnesus, 5 for Prokonnesos.
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