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Aenus (Ainos: Eth. Ainhiates, Aenius: Enos), a town of Thrace, situated
upon a promontory on the south-eastern side of the PaIns Stentoris, through which
one of the mouths of the Hebrus makes its way into the sea. According to Virgil
(Aen. iii. 18), it was founded by Aeneas when he landed there on his way from
Troy, but there does not seem any more authority for this statement than the similarity
of the names; but its antiquity is attested by the fact of its being mentioned
by Homer (Il. iv. 519). According to Herodotus (vii. 58) and Thucydides (vii.
57), Aenus was an Aeolic colony. Neither of them, however, mentions from what
particular place it was colonised. Scymnus Chius (696) attributes its foundation
to Mytilene; Stephanus Byzant. to Cumae, or, according to Meineke's edition, to
the two places conjointly. According to Strabo, a more ancient name of the place
was Poltyobria. Stephanus says it was also called Apsinthus.
Little especial mention of Aenus occurs till a comparatively late
period of Grecian history. It is mentioned by Thucydides that Aenus sent forces
to the Sicilian expedition as a subject ally of Athens. At a later period we find
it successively in the possession of Ptolemy Philopator, B.C. 222 (Pol. v. 34),
of Philip, king of Macedonia, B.C. 200 (Liv. xxxi. 16), and of Antiochus the Great.
After the defeat of the latter by the Romans, Aenus was declared free. (Liv. xxxviii.
60.) It was still a free city in the time of Pliny (iv. 11).
Athenaeus speaks of the climate of Aenus as being peculiarly ungenial.
He describes the year there as consisting of eight months of cold, and four of
winter.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town in Thrace, near the mouth of the Hebrus, said by Vergil to have been founded by Aeneas.
A harbor town at the mouth of the Hebros (Maritza, Meric) river. Its
Thracian name was Poltyobria, after the legendary Thracian king Poltys (Strab.
7. frag. 52; Steph. Byz.), but the name Amos appears very early, associated with
the Trojan war (Il. 4.520). The name Apsinthos is also recorded (Steph. Byz.).
The town was resettled by Greek colonists from the Aeolic region (Alopekonessos,
Mytilene, Kyme) in the 7th c. B.C. It occupied a high ridge dominating a good
harbor at the river mouth, which has silted up so as to become almost unusable.
The abundant coinage of the city shows that it was a significant economic center,
but almost nothing is known of its history. The town is mentioned sporadically
in accounts of Athenian, Thracian, Macedonian, and Roman activity in the region,
but never in an important role.
The ancient site is presumed to be approximately coextensive with
the modern town. The acropolis is occupied by the mediaeval castle of the Gattilusi,
which probably incorporates any surviving fragments of Classical architecture.
No systematic survey or excavation has been done.
T. S. Mackay, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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