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TRIZIN (Ancient city) GREECE
City, founded by Pittheus, Herakles ascends from Hades at, Theseus at, Aegeus lodges with Pittheus at, in Argolis, entrusted with the island of Hydrea, mother-city of Halicarnssus, its contingent in the Greek fleet, in the force at the Isthmus, in Pausanias' army, Troezenians in the battle of Mycale, receives Dorian colony, subject to Argos, city described.
Troezen is sacred to Poseidon, after whom it was once called Poseidonia. It is
situated fifteen stadia above the sea, and it too is an important city. Off its
harbor, Pogon by name, lies
Calauria, an isle with a circuit
of about one hundred and thirty stadia. Here was an asylum sacred to Poseidon;
and they say that this god made an exchange with Leto, giving her Delos
for Calauria, and also with
Apollo, giving him Pytho
for Taenarum. And Ephorus
goes on to tell the oracle:
"For thee it is the same thing to possess Delos
or Calauria, most holy Pytho
or windy Taenarum."
And there was also a kind of Amphictyonic League connected with this temple, a
league of seven cities which shared in the sacrifice; they were Hermion,
Epidaurus, Aegina,
Athens, Prasieis,
Nauplieis, and Orchomenus
Minyeius; however, the Argives
paid dues for the Nauplians,
and the Lacedaemonians for
the Prasians. The worship
of this god was so prevalent among the Greeks that even the Macedonians,
whose power already extended as far as the temple, in a way preserved its inviolability,
and were afraid to drag away the suppliants who fled for refuge to Calauria;
indeed Archias, with soldiers, did not venture to do violence even to Demosthenes,
although he had been ordered by Antipater to bring him alive, both him and all
the other orators he could find that were under similar charges, but tried to
persuade him; he could not persuade him, however, and Demosthenes forestalled
him by suiciding with poison. Now Troezen and Pittheus, the sons of Pelops, came
originally from Pisatis;
and the former left behind him the city which was named after him, and the latter
succeeded him and reigned as king. But Anthes, who previously had possession of
the place, set sail and founded Halicarnassus;
but concerning this I shall speak in my description of Caria
and Troy. (Strabo 8.6.14)
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